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Stockbridge-Munsee Historic Preservation Manager oversees repatriation of ancestral artifacts from Berkshire Museum

In a classroom on the museum’s second floor, Bonney Hartley whispered a quiet prayer over a box containing an ornate pair of beaded, orange and green moccasins and a wampum bag while sprinkling tobacco and cedar over them from a ceremonial pouch.

“Cedar is for protection,” she explained.
“Tobacco is our way of offering prayers. When I take them back to our office, I’ll also light a sage and smudge them. But we just want to cleanse them off and welcome them back home and let them know that what’s happening to them, that they’re returning from here to go back to our community.”

20220211_120532.jpg The 17th century moccasins and wampum bag.

Hartley’s name in Munsee is Taheekwundoheet, which means “she has her arms around the People.” She’s the Tribal Historic Preservation Manager of the Stockbridge-Munsee Community, working out of a Williamstown office. She focuses on preserving the community’s cultural landmarks, overseeing the return ancestral artifacts and remains from colonial institutions.

The community lived in a vast stretch of the Northeast for centuries before the arrival of European colonists in the 1600s, and were officially recognized as the Stockbridge-Munsee while centered in that Berkshire community in the 1700s.

“Our ancestors fought really valiantly in the Revolutionary War on the side of the new colonial America,” said Hartley. “And for those that did return to the town of Stockbridge, many people’s land had been taken by the Williams family, really notably, and others, and others obviously lost their lives in the war. And so our tribe was diminished, and actually not really seen as having a lot of value or use at that point for our strengths around diplomacy, for example, and working among other tribes during the Revolutionary War.”

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President of Stockbridge-Munsee Community Shannon Holsey delivers Claiming Williams morning keynote on history of the Mohican Nation

President of the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians Shannon Holsey presented the morning keynote for Claiming Williams Day on Feb. 3. Holsey delivered a presentation on the history of the Stockbridge-Munsee community, a band of the people formerly known as the Muhheconeew, or Mohican Nation, and the tribe’s forced removal from the College campus and Berkshire County. After her address, which took place on Zoom, Holsey answered audience questions about her role as a community leader and how institutions such as the College can work to build relationships with Indigenous communities and reckon with their past injustices.

Jayden Jogwe ’24, who participated in an independent study during the fall semester titled “Mohican Nation in Williamstown: Past, Present, and Future,” moderated the event. “I just really want to emphasize just how monumental it is to have President Holsey here,” Jogwe said. “This very well might be the first visit, albeit virtually, by a tribal sovereign nation leader to the College after its founding.”

Holsey’s speech explored the 2022 Claiming Williams theme, “Breaking Cycles: Where Do We go From Here?” The day’s programming investigated how to move forward from harmful cycles at all levels — from destructive thought patterns to systemic injustice — that persist in the College community and beyond.

 “It is my hope that today is one of many conversations…that we have as people, as the human race, because we are all interconnected in some form or fashion,” Holsey said. “I want to speak to you and engage you and invite you into the conversation… knowing that there really are no questions off the table.”

Holsey began her talk by sharing her personal history, followed by exploring the history of her tribe. After eight years as a member of the Tribal Council, the main governing body of the nation, Holsey…

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Roseville looks to pay for input on changing name of Pocahontas Park

Feb. 6—The city of Roseville wants to rename Pocahontas Park and is prepared to pay select American Indians for their input.

The parks and recreation commission has been considering a name change since fall 2020, when high schooler Andrew Kim, who was serving as a parks youth commissioner, told members “he had heard some concerns about the appropriateness of the name,” said Matthew Johnson, Rose­ville’s assistant director of parks and recreation.

The commission undertook a community engagement process, and “the vast majority of comments that we received were in favor of changing the name,” parks commissioner Michelle Lenhart told the city council Monday.

The Pocahontas story popularized by Disney “is inaccurate and contains stereotypes” that are harmful to American Indians, the city says on a webpage summarizing the comments it received. It also notes that Pocahontas had no ties to Minnesota land or its tribes.

At a joint meeting with the city council this week, parks commissioners recommended paying a stipend for American Indians to participate in the renaming process. The council was open to the idea and directed the commission to continue working on the name change.

The Metropolitan Urban Indian Directors group recommended establishing a committee made up of American Indian groups and individuals and providing a stipend “to honor their time and their expertise in helping to rename the park,” Lenhart said.

Commissioner Darrell Baggenstoss said the payment is no different from when the city hires consultants for their professional guidance “in any other work we do, whether it’s in the city, or in schools or other places like that.”

He said the final product would be “a legacy that stands hopefully for 100 years or more, because we did it the right way this time, which was to bring a voice to the table.”

A dollar amount was not determined at the meeting.

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Poughkeepsie: Real Renewal Community Pages

Poughkeepsie: Real Renewal

The level of investment in the city now shows that Poughkeepsie is well poised to come out of the pandemic ahead of the curve.

Jamie Larson | Feb 1, 2022

Harana Market Brings Filipino Flavor & Asian Products to Woodstock Restaurants

Harana Market Brings Filipino Flavor & Asian Products to Woodstock

A year after opening, Asian grocery store and Filipino cafe/deli Harana Market in Woodstock is thriving.

Lauren Mowery | Feb 1, 2022

Country Chic Wedding: 6 Hudson Valley Inns that Make Excellent Venues Weddings

Country Chic Wedding: 6 Hudson Valley Inns that Make Excellent Venues

There’s something so Hudson Valley about a cozy inn, whether bursting with greenery or dusted with New Year’s Eve snow—and perfect for weddings!

Kendyl Kearly | Feb 1, 2022

Forge Project: Back to the Land Education Supplement

Forge Project: Back to the Land

A Native-led initiative, launched in August, Forge Project is educating the public while providing Indigenous activists with a place to make changes in their communities.

Kerri Kolensky | Feb 1, 2022

The Greek Revival Farmhouse of Joseph Gosler and Sheila Wolper House Profiles

The Greek Revival Farmhouse of Joseph Gosler and Sheila Wolper

Evoking Eden: A Writer and an Artist Revisit the Past in Ancramdale

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What Is a Wendigo? A Look at the Supernatural Creature

In order to fill 320 episodes, Supernatural writers got to explore all sorts of terrifying creatures. So what is a wendigo and when did it get featured on the show?

To understand the monster, we need to take a look at its origin story. The Algonquian tribes saw the Wendigo as more than a mythical monster. It was a cautionary tale of what happens when you let gluttony overcome you.

Let’s take a look at the beginning of the legend and where it shows up in pop culture today.

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What Is a Wendigo? 

So what is a wendigo? According to Algonquian legend, these creatures weren’t born a monster. They became one.

A wendigo is the result of a person driven to madness by hunger. This hunger leads them to do something unforgivable: resort to cannibalism.

When they eat human flesh, that person becomes a beast driven only by hunger. The very thing that created them will haunt them for the rest of their lives. They will spend the rest of their time on this earth hungry, only getting momentary relief when actively eating another person. 

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Some people who saw the creature believe it’s a relative of Bigfoot. Others think that the creature is more similar to a werewolf.

A wendigo resides in the cold, so sightings mostly take place in Canada and sometimes northern states like Minnesota or in the Great Lakes region. At the beginning of the 20th century, the Algonquian tribes would commonly blame missing person cases on wendigo attacks.

In some accounts, the wendigo uses his swift speed to entrap victims. But his primary…

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Mystery of Tecumseh’s burial piqued educator’s interest into Indigenous languages

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Educator Ian McCallum, who grew up listening to relatives converse in their native language of Munsee on Munsee-Delaware Nation, has finished the translation of a 1931 London Free Press article about the death and burial of Shawnee chief Tecumseh – and the mystery surrounding it – into that little-spoken language. Educator Ian McCallum, who grew up listening to relatives converse in their native language of Munsee on Munsee-Delaware Nation, has finished the translation of a 1931 London Free Press article about the death and burial of Shawnee chief Tecumseh – and the mystery surrounding it – into that little-spoken language. jpg, CA

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A long-time Southwestern Ontario mystery about a towering historical figure is at the heart of a new project designed to pique the interest of those learning to speak an endangered Indigenous language.

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Educator Ian McCallum, who grew up listening to relatives converse in their native language of Munsee on Munsee-Delaware Nation, has finished the translation of a 1931 London Free Press article about the death and burial of Shawnee chief Tecumseh – and the mystery surrounding it – into that little-spoken language.

“I did some digging and I thought this would be a really good story to translate,” said McCallum, who lives near Barrie. He’s one of about three or four people who speak fluent Munsee as a second language and he teaches about 50 beginners, he said.

“We were looking for community stories to translate into the Munsee language, and I started with my own family because COVID didn’t allow for a lot of communication with the elders.”



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An Indigenous warrior. An enduring mystery. A long-overdue translation

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A longtime Southwestern Ontario mystery about a towering historical figure is at the heart of a new project designed to pique the interest of those learning to speak an endangered Indigenous language.

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Educator Ian McCallum, who grew up listening to relatives converse in their native language of Munsee on Munsee-Delaware Nation near London, has finished the translation of a 1931 London Free Press article about the death and burial of Shawnee chief Tecumseh – and the mystery surrounding it – into that little-spoken language.

“I did some digging and I thought this would be a really good story to translate,” said McCallum, who lives near Barrie. He’s one of about three or four people who speak fluent Munsee as a second language and he teaches about 50 beginners, he said.

“We were looking for community stories to translate into the Munsee language, and I started with my own family because COVID didn’t allow for a lot of communication with the elders.”

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In the 1931 Free Press story, McCallum’s great-great uncle, Jacob Logan, described the death and burial of Tecumseh, who was killed near Chatham in 1813 while fighting for the British in the War of 1812.

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Boiling water recommendations spread to Thames Chipevas, Munsee-Delaware-London

Residents of Tipevas in Thames First Nations near London, Ontario, and many people and businesses in Munze Delaware Nation continue to receive the boiling recommendations that have been in place since last month.

The Preventive Boiling Water Recommendation was first issued on December 14, 2021 and urged residents to save on water usage.

On Thursday, Thames Chipevas officials announced that the recommendation would be extended “until further notice” and would affect all residents along with Munsee Delaware’s “29 real estate and six commercial businesses.” ..

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“No water concerns have been reported and no water quality concerns have been suspected,” officials said in a recent recommendation.

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“This is a precautionary measure due to capacity issues.”

First Nations Water Department continues to treat, sample and test local water to see if it is safe to drink, Thames official Chipevas added.

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According to Thames’ Chippewas, discussions with Canadian Indigenous Services are underway and concerns about water capacity are being considered.

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