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Native America Calling: The Native role in America’s War of Independence

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Native America Calling: The Native role in America’s War of Independence

Monday, December 4, 2023

The Native role in America’s War of Independence

The American Revolution is mostly portrayed as an epic struggle between the colonies and the British. But Native tribes and individuals played a significant role in the historic War of Independence. It was a difficult choice for tribes, who were neither British subjects nor supporters of the encroaching colonies. Tune into Native America Calling to get the Native perspective on America’s first war. Joseph Louis Cook, or Akiatonharónkwen Joseph Louis Cook, or Akiatonharónkwen, served as commissioned officer in the Continental Army during the American Revolution. He was born to an African father and an Abenaki mother. After he and his mother were taken captive, they were adopted into the Mohawk Nation at Kahnawake in present-day Canada. Image: Yale University Art Gallery

Guests on Native America Calling

Chairman Tehassi Hill (Oneida), chairman of the Oneida Indian Nation from Wisconsin Peter Jemison (Seneca [Heron Clan]), artist and Historic Site Manager (retired) at Ganondagan State Historic Site in New York JoAnn Schedler (Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians), retired Army Major and author of the Official National Park Service Handbook American Indians and the Civil War Curtis Zunigha (Delaware Tribe of Indians), co-director of the Lenape Center native america calling

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Bowling: Apache, Navaho & Commanche Win

Warriors Bowling League action continued, with Apache defeating Mohican 4-0, Navaho defeating Blackfoot 3-1 and Commanche defeating Kickapoo 4-0.

Standings

  1. Kickapoo 32
  2. Blackfoot 27 1/2
  3. Commanche 24 1/2
  4. Navaho 22 1/2
  5. Apache 21 1/2
  6. Mohican 16

Last weeks results

  • Mohican 0 Apache 4
  • Blackfoot 1 Navaho 3
  • Kickapoo 0` Commanche 4

Team

  • Team Scratch Game: Commanche 777; Mohican 589
  • Team Scratch Series: Kickapoo 1793; Blackfoot 1443
  • Team Handicap Game: Navaho 826
  • Team Handicap Series: Apache 2377

Men

  • Men Scratch Game: Jamel Bean 210; David Signor 204; Dennis Trott 185
  • Men Scratch Series: Arrington Smith 530; Larry Dean 515; Vernon Harrison 482
  • Men Handicap Game: Ellsworth Bean 254; Llewellyn Jones 230; Taye Fishington 217
  • Men Handicap Series: Quinton Hayward 642; Corey Bean 610; Andre Place 594

Women

  • Scratch Game: Susie Bradshaw 168; C. Lynne Cann 141
  • Scratch Series: Miriam Caisey 383; Tanya Iris 353
  • Handicap Game: Chrystie Simons 216; Shampagne Cann 199
  • Handicap Series: Akajae Mills 588

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Rewriting the Thanksgiving story, while centering Indigenous voices

From the Mayflower’s landing, to the meal shared by English setters and Wampanoag people, much is still widely misunderstood about the Thanksgiving holiday and its history.

Connecticut-based educator Chris Newell recently wrote a book for children that helps to untangle some of the myths and misnomers commonly associated with Thanksgiving. For example, the book clarifies that “the holiday we celebrate today does not have any real connection to the Mayflower’s landing. In fact, the story that links them was not created until two hundred years later.”

As Newell notes in his introduction, “The story of the Mayflower landing is different depending on whether the storyteller viewed the events from the boat or from the shore.” This hour, Chris Newell joins us.

Winona Nelson consulted with Wampanoag people to inform her illustrations in the book

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Winona Nelson consulted with Wampanoag people to inform her illustrations in the book “If You Lived During the Plimoth Thanksgiving.”

Plus, how is this topic being reframed in Connecticut classrooms? The Connecticut State Department of Education recently published resources for “Teaching Native American Studies.” The materials were developed in a collaboration between the five state-recognized Eastern Woodland tribes: Golden Hill Paugussett, Mashantucket Pequot, Mohegan, Paucatuck Eastern Pequot and Schaghticoke.

Becky Gomez, the director of education for the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation, and Sam Tondreau, a member of the Mohegan Tribe as well as their director of curriculum and instruction, discuss. Tondreau also oversees the Mohegan Tribe’s Educators Project.

GUESTS:

  • Chris Newell: Member of the Passamaquaddy Tribe; Co-Founder and Director of Education, Akowmawt Educational Initiative; Museum Educator; Children’s Book Author, If You Lived During
  • Rebecca Gomez: Director of Education and Recreation, Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation
  • Samantha Tondreau: Member of the…

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Nanticoke

County blames Greater Nanticoke Area School District for ballot error

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Lenape’s importance to region on display at area exhibition

The introductory panel to the exhibition “Never Broken: Visualizing Lenape Histories” — currently on view at the Michener Museum in Doylestown, Pennsylvania — states something remarkably important to the region.

But it isn’t in the words. It is the image on which the text is written: an overhead view of the Abbott Marshlands at the estuary where the Crosswicks Creek meets the Delaware River.

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Joe Baker’s ‘Three Sisters,’ a 1997 oil on canvas from The John and Susan Horseman Collection, courtesy of the Horseman Foundation.

The land — part of Trenton, Hamilton, and Bordentown — is the site of what had been one of the largest Eastern settlements of Native American — as well as documentation of human activity there for 13,000 years.

It is also roughly in the center of the land called Lenapehoking (Land of the Lenape).

They are the indigenous people whose territory included all of what is known today as New Jersey, New York Bay and Hudson Valley, the eastern section of Pennsylvania, and northern sections of Delaware.

They are also the people whose culture was disrupted and then suppressed to near the point of extinction by European colonization, starting in the early 1600s.

The exhibition’s reference to “Never Broken” argues that the culture has never disappeared and that the exhibition is a type of reaffirmation.

The “visualizing” reference signals that the reaffirming will be done through visual art.

And, indeed, viewers will encounter ancient Lenape designs, European and Colonial depictions of the Lenape people, and new works by contemporary Lenape artists — who combine both Lenape and European and American art traditions.

The curators of what is being touted as the first exhibition of its kind…

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Mohican

Group turns vacant land in Detroit neighborhood into community park

DETROIT, Mich. (CBS DETROIT) – Earlier this year, the park on the corner of East State Fair Avenue and Anvil Street in Detroit did not exist and was an eyesore of vacant land.

Due to the help of many volunteers and neighbors, it’s now a space where those in the community can come together.

“A lot of blight, people were dumping on the site itself, and it just kind of accumulated. Looked really messy,” Detroit resident, Sharon Hayes said. 

vacant-lot-detroit-1.png A photo of the vacant lot that used to preside on the corner of East State Fair Avenue and Anvill Street in Detroit. George Preston

“It was a place where they would drop trash, debris, it was overgrown with weeds, trees… just an eyesore,” Mohican Regent Resident’s Association Treasurer, Kimberly Slone said. 

What was once an area of land full of junk and debris is now a glimmer of hope and space for people to gather in the Mohican Regent Resident’s Association neighborhood.

“It was such an adventure getting together, working together as one. Just seeing it come to fruition was great,” Slone said.

With the help of the city, grants, and donations, the association was able to buy the eight lots that make up the property.

vacant-lot-detroit-2.png The new community park located on the corner of East State Fair Avenue and Anvill Street in Detroit. CBS Detroit

Throughout the summer, hundreds of volunteers got their hands dirty to clean up what is now a community park.

“We were able to put in a flag, we put in benches over here, we’ve got tables, we’re going to put even more because it’s going to be a sitting park and hopefully we’re going to have some events over here,” Mohican Regent Resident’s Association President,…

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Our Opinion: A tribe and a museum demonstrate the work and respect needed for reconciliation

Guided by trust and collaboration, the Berkshire Museum will hand over two sets of remains to the Stockbridge-Munsee tribe

The Berkshire Museum’s repatriation of remains to the Stockbridge-Munsee tribe was part of a larger process that began in 1990 when a landmark federal law ordered America’s museums and universities to return Native American cultural objects.

When the Berkshire Museum gives two sets of human remains to the Stockbridge-Munsee Community Band of Mohican Indians, it will be a successful step forward for a process as difficult as it is morally necessary. It will not only be a clear-eyed accounting of a deep historical wound but an example of how, with respect and recognition, it is never too late to hope for healing and reconciliation.

The remains are set to be transferred from the custody of the Berkshire Museum to the Stockbridge-Munsee tribe, which plans to give them a dignified reburial. The remains were donated to the Berkshire Athenaeum in 1932. Years before that, in the late 19th century, they were recovered in a river washout in the late 19th century in the area of Springfield and Longmeadow. Like so many Native American remains once laid to rest in tribal burial locations, they were carelessly unearthed by the same forces of expanding American empire that pushed their peoples out, catalogued and stored as exhibits and artifacts without regard for the wishes or traditions of the deceased individuals or their tribes.

How would you feel if your family’s bones were raked from the earth and appropriated as the property of those whose ancestors dispossessed yours? Unfortunately, many Native Americans don’t have to imagine such a rending ordeal adding insult to the injury of displacement and destruction.

Fortunately, much has changed in the world of museum ethics…

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Mohegan

Santa Dash benefits Greater Pittston Santa Squad

Lace up your running shoes, don your best Santa costume, and run a few laps on the track at Mohegan Pennsylvania.

LUZERNE COUNTY, Pa. — The Hive Taphouse inside Mohegan Pennsylvania has transformed into Santa’s hangout spot, filled with toys that will soon go home to kids in the greater Pittston area.

“We have learned first-hand the great need here in our community. The Greater Pittston Santa Squad, believe it or not, helps 1,600 children’s wishes be fulfilled this holiday season,” said Jim Brogna with the Wyoming Valley Run.

“I thought, ‘Oh, my gosh!’ I didn’t even know there were 1,600 kids in need, so for us to be able to do something to directly make a difference right here in our community, right up the street, is really important,” said Jennifer Ducharme, director of events at Mohegan Pennsylvania.

Volunteers with the Wyoming Valley Run say they have charity at heart. In September, the 10-mile race raised money for five area charities. Now, they’re expanding.

This Saturday at Mohegan Pennsylvania in Plains Township, people can lace up their shoes for a few laps around the horse racing track for the inaugural Santa Dash.

“You can run on the track—whether you want to run one lap or ten laps—in an hour. I think what is exciting for runners is that it’s a flat course, and you never get to run on the track. It’s a different experience, and we’re expecting people to dress up in their best costumes,” said Brogna.

The cost to participate is one new unwrapped toy.

“After people go out and do their laps on the track, they will come back here for the Santa Summit where we’ll get everyone in costume, have a costume contest, have a happy hour, drink specials, food,” said Ducharme.

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Nanticoke

New spa arrives in Dickson City offering health and wellness

Residents of Dickson City and the surrounding area have a new place to find health and wellness resources. Head and Stone Spa.

Head and Stone Spa, 914 Commerce Boulevard, Dickson City, opened on Oct. 22. The business is a franchise launched in 2004 with a goal to bring affordable luxury spa services to everyone. The franchise has over 560 locations across the United States and Canada.

The Dickson City Head and Stone Spa opened as a partnership of John Beggs, Scott Brennan and Rick Bunchalk. Beggs got involved in the business after talking to his business partner Brennan, who was working on the corporate level for the franchise. The two then partnered with Bunchalk and first opened a franchise three years ago in Wilkes-Barre at 411 Arena Hub Plaza.

At the time of the Wilkes-Barre opening, Pennsylvania did not have a membership model spa, according to Beggs. This type of spa model helps reduce prices for clients compared to many typical spas, according to Beggs. Affordability helps “get people in a health and wellness routine,” said Beggs. In addition, the model also lets clients become like family with the staff, according to Beggs.

Other than running the spa, Beggs, a Nanticoke resident, works as a math teacher Nanticoke Area School District where he has taught for 25 years. He also served as an assistant basketball coach for 20 years and head coach for six years.

With the success of the Wilkes-Barre location, Beggs and his business partners looked to find another location and found a looking at bringing health and wellness to the area. They looked at the Dickson City as a location with the space having great anchor tenants and a need for a spa in the area, according to Beggs. His goal is for the spa to “be a part of the community…

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This Week in DPPA: 25 November

DPPA’s Policy and Mediation Division and PBSO separately briefed a meeting of the Group of Friends on Climate and Security at the level of Permanent Representatives on 27 November. As chair of the Climate Security Mechanism (CSM) for November and December, DPPA provided an update on the work of the joint initiative established in 2018 between DPPA, Department of Peace Operations, UN Development Programme and UN Environment Programme. The CSM Joint Programme works to catalyze climate-informed approaches to peace and security, advance peace positive climate actions, and forge partnerships at all levels to exchange information and build the evidence base. 

13th Annual Meeting of Deputy Foreign Ministers of Central Asia held in Bishkek

The thirteenth annual Meeting of Deputy Foreign Ministers of the Central Asian states, convened by the UN Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia (UNRCCA), took place in Bishkek on 27-28 November. The meeting provided an opportunity to exchange views on challenges in Central Asia and ways to address them, such as climate change, trans-boundary water management, preventing violent extremism and countering terrorism, as well as risks related to the situation in Afghanistan. Participants explored ways on how the UN Regional Centre could further support preventive diplomacy efforts, including through the increased role of women and youth in decision making.  

Central Africa: A regional conference on non-constitutional changes in the course of 2024

The Member States of the UN Permanent Advisory Committee on Security Issues in Central Africa (UNSAC) met in Kigali from 20 to 24 November. The member states decided to organize a regional conference on unconstitutional changes of government in 2024, with the support of the UN Regional Office for Central Africa (

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