Month: October 2024

HS ROUNDUP: Nanticoke Area beats Valley West in volleyball

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Mohican

Cooperstown florist joins effort to spread cheer

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Post date October 16, 2024
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A Cooperstown florist will participate in a nationwide effort to brighten the day for random people.

According to a news release from the Society of American Florists, Mohican Flowers, 207 Main St. in Cooperstown, will surprise passersby Wednesday, Oct. 16, with two free flower bouquets each — one to keep and one to give to a friend, family member, colleague or stranger.

The random-acts-of-kindness effort — called Petal It Forward and organized by the SAF — “is designed to help people start their day with more smiles and less stress,” the release stated.

“Petal It Forward is the floral industry’s way of giving back,” said Elizabeth Daly, SAF’s manager of marketing and communications. She said the effort was purposefully planned for a Wednesday “to help the mid-week slump.”

“We are lucky enough to experience the joy of flowers on a daily basis and any chance we get to share that joy, we gladly accept the opportunity,” Hanna Bergene-Bauer of Mohican Flowers said. “Through the positive effects of flowers, we hope to make someone’s day brighter, and provide a much-needed moment of calm amidst the hectic pace of life.”

Bauer said the original idea behind Petal It Forward’s “keep one, share one” concept, which started in 2015, came after looking at statistics that showed while 80% of people reported receiving flowers makes them happy, even more (88%) said giving flowers makes them happy.

“We want to give people the chance to experience both,” she said. “Having flowers in your house or office brings joy by filling the space with natural beauty, vibrant colors and a sense of tranquility.”

In addition to the Petal It Forward event this week, Mohican Flowers is also working with Bassett Healthcare Network to donate 200 pink carnations…

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Mohegan

Haunting video shows final moments of college student at casino

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Post date October 15, 2024
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Haunting video has revealed a college student’s final moments before he collapsed and died while celebrating his graduation at a casino in Connecticut.

Ethan Bherwani, 22, from Long Island, was with two friends at the Mohegan Sun casino in May 2021 when he made the devastating decision to purchase cocaine from a dealer in the bathroom.

Unbeknown to him the cocaine was laced with the lethal drug fentanyl, which caused him to keel over at the blackjack table just moments later.

Surveillance footage showed him wearing a hat and face mask while playing cards before he fell unconscious and collapsed onto the floor where he remained motionless.

His friends were not there as they had already gone to bed. Other people can be seen glancing over at him but continued to play cards. Two other bystanders then run over to him to attempt to provide aid but appear to be waved away by a staff member. It took five minutes for someone to call for an EMT and 11 minutes before paramedics arrived and performed life-saving measures.

Ethan was eventually transported to hospital but died nine days later on May 27, 2021 – just days before his graduation ceremony at Baruch College in New York.

His heartbroken father, Kamal Bherwani, 55, has spent the last three years fighting for justice after it emerged the drug dealer who sold his son the deadly cocaine, Jerrard Santiago, was prolific in the area and had been banned from the casino years earlier.

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Lenni Lenape

Lenape Chamber performs second Summer Gala Concert

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Post date October 15, 2024
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Lenapehoking

Curio Theatre gets its hands dirty for the Lenape Nation

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Post date October 15, 2024
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The mound and the pit are a street installation conceived and created by Paul Kuhn, artistic director of Curio Theatre Company, which is based in the Calvary Center. Curio is about to open its production of “The Thanksgiving Play” by Larissa FastHorse, a comedy about a group of white theater artists attempting to stage a culturally sensitive holiday play at an elementary school, which goes wrong. The play made its Broadway debut in 2023, the first Broadway show by a female Native American playwright.

Kuhn wanted to acknowledge the Lenapehoking, the Lenape name for their homeland, in a more substantial way than merely a note in the playbill. Originally from Nova Scotia, Kuhn was moved by the recent discovery in Canada of possibly hundreds of unmarked graves at residential schools for Indigenous children.

Although no human remains have been exhumed, which caused a backlash against the discovery, Kuhn felt personally culpable as a descendant of white Canadians. He watched the ceremonies of Sept. 30, Canada’s annual National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, which were televised nationally.

“All over Canada they were broadcasting live Indigenous people discussing the horrors and the atrocities that were committed against their people,” Kuhn said. “It actually had a reverse effect: It re-traumatized them.”

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“I wanted to express my gratitude, and my acknowledgment of what my people did, by having something that could really get your hands dirty,” he added. “Touching the soil gives us a direct connection to the earth.”

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HS ROUNDUP: Nanticoke Area beats Valley West in volleyball

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Post date October 15, 2024
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Mohican

Indigenous Influence on Capital Region

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In recent years there have been increasingly louder calls to shift the narrative on the second Monday in October from Columbus to the indigenous groups, whose influence still reverberates across our landscape.

The first people to call the Capital Region home, long before we arrived, were the Mohican and Mohawk tribes. Their size dwindled after European settling, which at first was actually A mutually beneficial relationship with trading and the teachings of survival techniques; however, eventually wars, violent conflict and disease led to the demise of indigenous population. Nonetheless, their footprint is everywhere you look.

For example, one of the Capital Region’s biggest schools, Shenendehowa, is Mohawk for “great plain,” which refers to the flat, fertile land that we now call Clifton Park. The district renamed all of its schools using indigenous words in the 1950s, 60s and 70s.

Niskayuna has roots in the Mohawk term for “extensive corn flats, although not many corn flats left here.

Down the road in Schenectady, the city’s name stems from a mohawk expression, meaning “over the pines”.

The name Schoharie” is derived from the native word to-was-scho-hor, meaning “driftwood”, A reference to the large driftwood piles that would accumulate in the Schoharie Creek.

Burnt Hills isn’t an obvious one—but according to the town of Ballston historian, it’s named so because of the native people who would burn the hillsides to encourage new growth that attracted deer for hunting—settlers in Schenectady saw the hills ablaze and named them the Burnt Hills.

Be careful who you say Adirondack around, as it was actually a derogatory term devised by the mohawk, meaning “barkeaters.”

The name Glens Falls has undergone multiple changes, but it stems from the Mohawk term for “hard place to get around, as the area had a waterfall at the time that blocked the Hudson River.”

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Delaware Tribe

Indigenous Peoples’ event finds joy in the past

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Post date October 14, 2024
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History, care, and joy — a surprising mixture — were shared Monday at Shackamaxon, also known as Penn Treaty Park, on a gorgeous fall day during the eighth annual celebration of Indigenous Peoples’ Day there.

The event, put on by Indigenous Peoples’ Day Philly, Inc., honored the Lenape tribe and Indigenous communities originating or residing in the Northeast of the U.S.

Indigenous Peoples’ Day commemorates the history and legacy of native tribes within the U.S. The holiday is celebrated on what had previously been marked as Columbus Day, with the intent to decenter the perspective of European explorers like Christopher Columbus and other historical figures who sought to destroy Native cultures.

Before honoring other tribes, IPD Philly introduced visitors to the Lenape, or Delaware, tribe, whose ancestral lands span southeastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey and southern New York.

Curtis Zunigha, co-director of the Lenape Center in New York, spoke to the audience about the relationship between the Lenape and Quaker settlers who arrived here initially, as well as the shift from peace to strife, and the colonists dubbing the Lenape as the Delaware tribe.

To recenter the joyous aspect of the day, Zunigha led the Bean Dance, a Lenape tradition that illustrates the growth of bean plants. Many children were happy to participate, and adults were welcome to join in.

Bart “Standing Elk” Cartwright is a member of the Lenape tribe and part of the Turtle Clan signifying the original people of the Philadelphia area. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)

Bart “Standing Elk” Cartwright was one of those adults. The self-employed Lenape carpenter believes that the event is a sign of progress, from focusing only on the narratives of settlers from the past to highlighting the survival of the tribes across the Americas.

During the performances and speeches, people…

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Munsee

Munsee-Delaware First Nation to visit Wampum belt tied to their history

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Post date October 14, 2024
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Later this month about 50 members of the Munsee-Delaware First Nation — located outside of London, Ont. — will take a trip to the United States to pay a visit to what might be best described as an old friend.

But instead of visiting a person, they’ll be stopping in to a Munsee language and history symposium in Princeton, N.J., to check in on a Wampum belt that originated in their community and is believed to be more than 250 years old.

“This actually is the first time in my knowledge where a Munsee item has come out of a museum and where our community has been able to see it,” said Ian McCallum, a member of the Munsee-Delaware First Nation and a researcher of Indigenous art, language and history.

“This is actually the first time it’s been with its community in a very long time. It’s going to be quite an event.”

Although it’s called a belt, the Wampum is typically worn around the neck, almost like a scarf, during ceremonies and important meetings.

The belt is made with strands of hemp looped through cylinder-shaped beads made of quahog shells.

Belt in ‘remarkable condition’

It’s become brittle and delicate over the years but McCallum, who visited the belt recently, said this hasn’t diminished the power of seeing it in person.

“There are bits and pieces of the belt that are missing but for the age that it is, it’s in remarkable condition,” he said.

Many aspects of its history aren’t known. It’s believed the belt was made to commemorate a treaty between the Munsee-Delaware people and King George III in the 18th century.

In or around 1907, Munsee-Delaware elder Jacob Dolson gave the belt to Mark Harrington, an anthropologist and avid collector of Indigenous artifacts in the U.S. and Canada.

Jacob Dolson, who gave the belt to a U.S.-based collector, shown wearing the belt. Jacob Dolson, who gave…

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