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The Tribal Council of the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians is sounding an alarm about unaffiliated groups — including one based in the Berkshires — that may be seeking to exploit the Wisconsin-based tribe for financial gain.
The Stockbridge-Munsee Community has strong ties to this area, as it is part of our ancestral homelands. Reconnecting with our homelands is a means of recovery from forced relocation and assimilation, and we are happy with the local interest in our history, culture and traditions.
The Stockbridge-Munsee Community is a federally-recognized Indian tribe made up of both Munsee and Mohican Indians with an ancestral territory that includes portions of what is now New York State, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Vermont and New Jersey. We are a sovereign nation geographically situated on a reservation in Shawano County, Wis. Our tribe is governed by a duly elected Tribal Council, pursuant to our constitution. As a sovereign tribal nation, we enjoy a unique trust relationship with the federal government and engage in government-to-government relations at the federal, state and local levels.
Our tribe was one of the first tribes to meet the European explorers when Henry Hudson sailed up the Mahicannituck (later called the Hudson River) into the lands of the Mohicans in September 1609. A more detailed summary of our history can be found on our website at https://mohican.com/brief-history. Because of that early encounter and pressure to assimilate, our language, culture and tradition were significantly eroded. As a tribe, we are committed to recovering both language and culture and protecting what our ancestors left us. That commitment includes remaining true to the traditions we have and exposing misuse, misrepresentation or monetization of our culture and traditions.
Toward that end, we…
A few years ago, when I made regular trips to the Baltimore waterfront to fish for rockfish, several people stopped to ask the same question: Are they safe to eat?
My answer: “I don’t know. I’m not a biologist. But rockfish are migratory. They move around and visit the Atlantic. So it’s not like they’re just bottom feeding in the Inner Harbor or Middle Branch all year, accumulating toxins in their flesh. They’re probably safe. Besides, I might catch and keep only one or two per year. I don’t think it will kill me.”
Notice the reference to bottom feeding, the suggestion that rockfish have eating habits superior to less venerated Chesapeake species such as channel catfish or carp.
While bottom feeders eat natural food — mollusks, insect larvae, small fish and some plants — they are thought to be consumers of stuff we’d rather not think about, especially in urban areas. I don’t know if that reputation is deserved, but it’s what a lot of us think, and science-based advisories suggest that certain fish that feed on the bottom pose some risks to humans.
I bring this up because we’re in the second month of The Year of Eating Chesapeake Blue Catfish, proclaimed in this space to support efforts to arrest the growth of an invasive species. Blue catfish are all over the Chesapeake and its tributaries, and it appears they are eating everything, top and bottom.
We need to eat more of them.
To this end, Sun readers sent me recipes to share. (There’s one at the end of this column.) But I also received a caution from Andy Grosko, who has harvested catfish from local waters.
“Sure,” he wrote from Woodstock, “we want to manage invasive fish populations and help commercial watermen, but not at the…
UNCASVILLE, Conn., Feb. 8, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Mohegan Tribal Gaming Authority (“Mohegan,” “we” or “our”) today announced operating results for its first fiscal quarter ended December 31, 2023.
“We are thrilled that Mohegan INSPIRE has received its five-star hotel rating in January and opened the casino on February 3rd,” said Raymond Pineault, Chief Executive Officer of Mohegan. “The five-star rating is a testament to our pursuit for excellence and commitment to providing world-class experiences. We are looking forward to more amenities coming online in the ensuing months.”
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Mohegan Operating Results |
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Three Months Ended |
Variance |
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($ in thousands, unaudited) |
December 31, 2023 |
December 31, 2022 |
$ |
% |
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Net revenues |
$ 425,232 |
$ 406,621 |
$ 18,611 |
4.6 % |
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Income from operations |
31,970 |
70,229 |
(38,259) |
(54.5) % |
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Net income (loss) attributable to Mohegan |
(97,019) |
807 |
(97,826) |
N.M. |
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Adjusted EBITDA1 |
79,002 |
101,055 |
(22,053) |
(21.8) % |
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“Quarterly net revenues increased $18.6 million compared with the prior-year period, primarily due to continued growth in Mohegan Digital and non-gaming revenues from Mohegan INSPIRE,” said Carol Anderson, Chief Financial Officer of Mohegan. “However our consolidated Adjusted EBITDA of $79.0 million decreased $22.1 million compared with the prior-year period due to a number…
Welcome to Will’s Core Canon, a series covering some of my all-time favorite movies and why they work. This series seeks to go beyond surface-level analysis to strike at the core of why these films resonated the way they did.
Every year around my birthday, I like to revisit one of my favorite movies. This year, I could not be happier to have picked The Last of the Mohicans, 1992’s epic historic romance set in colonial America directed by Michael Mann and based on James Fenimore Cooper’s classic 1826 novel. This movie also credits a previous film adaptation from 1936 as a source of inspiration. The film follows Nathaniel “Hawkeye” Poe (Daniel Day-Lewis), the adopted son of Mohican warrior Chingachgook (Russell Means), in upper New York State during the French and Indian War.
A party escorting the two daughters of a commanding colonel is sabotaged, only for Hawkeye to step in and save them. The oldest daughter, Cora (Madeleine Stowe), and Hawkeye begin to bond as they return to the fort, only to find it under siege. The traitorous Mohawk warrior Magua (Wes Studi) seeks revenge against Cora’s father. Though they must be separated, Hawkeye pleads with Cora to stay alive and that he promises come what may, he will always find her. Lives are not spared as negotiations between the various warring parties take place on what to do with our cast of heroes.
(Twentieth Century Fox)
Director Michael Mann has been discussed a lot recently, as his first movie in 8 years, Ferrari, was just released to positive reception. The Last of the Mohicans was Mann’s first bigger-budgeted movie, and only his fourth movie overall. He was mostly known before this for smaller thrillers like 1981’s…
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Restraint is required to create the environment Iraq needs to consolidate hard-won stability and realize sustainable progress, the senior United Nations official in the country told the Security Council today, amidst United States air strikes in Iraqi territory on 2 February and the ongoing conflict in nearby Gaza.
“Messaging by strikes only serves to heighten tensions, to kill or injure people and to destroy property,” stressed Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), as she briefed the Council on the Secretary-General’s reports concerning missing Kuwaiti and third-country nationals and missing Kuwaiti property (document S/2024/95) and concerning UNAMI (document S/2024/96).
If attacks originating from within and outside of Iraq’s borders continue, this will undo the country’s hard-won stability and other achievements made over the past 18 months, she said. An enabling environment is essential for Iraq to continue on its path of stability and progress, but such an environment requires restraint from all sides. While spotlighting certain progress — including the holding of local elections for the first time in 10 years on 18 December 2023 — she emphasized that climate-change-related events “combine to paint a rather bleak picture, in which existing fault lines come under increasing pressure”.
Also updating on events in the Kurdistan region and the Iraqi Government’s commitment to the issue of missing Kuwaiti and third-country nationals and missing Kuwaiti property, she nevertheless emphasized that swifter progress is needed. Further, the Government’s plans for sustainable progress, real reform and better living standards will become more difficult to realize with each passing year. Therefore reiterating the importance of ceasing attacks and creating an enabling environment, she stated: “It is quite simple: the enormous risks and potential devastating consequences…
“(There’s) capitalism. And Big Brother … the themes of 1984 … And there’s also historical — I’m thinking of Born with Teeth — illuminating certain periods of time to bring us back to the present. These mirrored issues, or these issues that we’ve been going through time and time again, and don’t seem to ever clear up. It’s a different version of the same old story.”
The first read-through at Aurora Thatre of ‘Manhatta’ with actors Linda Amayo-Hassan, Oogie Push, Ixtlán and Livia Gomes Dimarchi. (Alandra Hileman)
For Davis, who is of Potawatomi, Ojibwe, and Sámi descent, working with a powerhouse majority-Native cast has been a joyful and generative process. It speaks to the relative rarity of Native work on Bay Area stages to note that several actors are making their Aurora Theatre debut with Manahatta, though many have worked on other projects together before.
“Indigenous and Native theatre is a pretty small community,” Davis points out. “We run in small circles. We get a lot of the same emails. We see each other around. But also, Aurora hired the Casting Collective … and I did have a chat with them upfront about cultural specificity and identity politics around Native casting. … With that in mind, I just called in everyone I knew of that I knew would be right in the Bay Area. And the Casting Collective (worked) with another colleague that I met up at OSF who identifies as Indigenous, so they already had a pretty robust list as well.”
One of these performers, Ixtlán (seen recently at Aurora Theatre in Cyrano), not only worked with Davis on the OSF production playing the same doubled role of Se-ket-tu-may-qua / Luke, but on many projects since — “My art partner,” as Davis fondly…
Wyoming Area lost its hold on the Wyoming Valley Conference Division 2 boys basketball lead Tuesday, but battled back Friday to move within one win of securing a berth in the WVC Tournament.
The Warriors finished the week even in the loss column and a half-game behind Holy Redeemer at 8-1 in the division, leading to a possibility of a first-place tie. They are 13-5 and third of 10 teams in the race for eight District 2 Class 4A playoffs.
The top two finishers in each division enter the four-team WVC playoffs. Wyoming Area closed in on playing in that tournament for the first time with Friday’s road win over third-place Nanticoke.
Wyoming Area 58, Nanticoke 52
NANTICOKE — Wyoming Area and Nanticoke battled through four quarters Friday night in a physical game that bordered on a slugfest.
The Warriors, just like in their previous matchup with the Trojans this season, were able to land the decisive blows when it mattered most.
Wyoming Area came up with big bucket after big bucket in the fourth, putting a feisty Nanticoke squad down by a 58-52 final score.
“It was big,” Wyoming Area coach Anthony Macario said. “We needed this one. We knew it was going to be super physical.
“They got us here in the playoffs last year in a real similar type game, and our guys responded when it counted.”
Dane Schutter led the Warriors with 19 points and Brady Noone had 16. After a relatively quiet first half, Noone was a huge catalyst for Wyoming Area in the final eight minutes when he scored nine points.
Though Wyoming Area led pretty much throughout, the Trojans refused to give an inch and kept the Warriors within striking distance through three quarters, trailing by just six heading into the final quarter.
HARTFORD — One of the first decisions Geno Auriemma made after he started as UConn women’s basketball coach in 1985 was hiring Chris Dailey to his staff. After winning his 1,200th career game on Wednesday night, he knows hitting a home run with that decision has helped define his ever-growing legacy.
“I knew very, very early, before we played our first game or I even had the job yet that if she would agree to come here and coach with me and us, we could be good,” Auriemma said after the 67-34 win over Seton Hall. “Obviously nobody envisioned this, but that decision I think made every other decision possible. … By getting that one right, we set ourselves for something like this to happen.”
Dailey has been Auriemma’s other half for all 39 seasons at UConn, three as an assistant and the last 36 as associate head coach. In fact, several of Auriemma’s 1,200 wins are technically Dailey’s: She has led the team to 17 victories when serving as head coach in his absence. Her perfect record includes wins in the 1989 and 1997 Big East Tournament championship games and in the first two rounds of the 2021 NCAA Tournament.
Only two other coaches in college basketball history have surpassed 1,200 wins, Stanford women’s coach Tara Vanderveer (1,206) and former Duke men’s coach Mike Krzyzewski (1,202). Auriemma and Dailey are the only pair to reach the milestone in fewer than 45 seasons and to do so with a single program. (Krzyzewski won 73 games as head coach at Army).
1,200 wins. SO many memories #BleedBlue pic.twitter.com/VKeeU5RgYz
— UConn Huskies (@UConnHuskies) February 8, 2024
A partnership as long — and successful — as Auriemma and Dailey’s is rare in college…
MOUNT VERNON — This year’s River Rally Clean Up is Sept. 14 along with several other clean-up events scheduled throughout the spring and summer.
For Earth Day, Friends of the Kokosing Scenic River will be adopting the litter cleanup schedule along both the Kokosing Scenic River and the Mohican Scenic River.
The goal is to reduce the human impact in Knox County.
All clean-up events will start at 9 a.m. and end at approximately noon.
If a rain date is needed, the clean-up will occur the following day, according to program manager Matt Baugher.
Here is the upcoming schedule:
- March 2 | Memorial Park Lower Gambier
- March 9 | Laymon Road Big Run
- March 16 | Pipesville
- March 23 | Millwood Landing Hazel Dell Rd
- March 30 | Zuck Rd Landing Zuck Landing to 715
- April 6 | Riley Chapel Landing Riley Chapel to 715
- April 13 | Confluence Landing Landing to 715
- April 20 | Mohican -Knox County Wally Road Brinkhaven Road Greer Landing
- Sept. 14 | River Rally Clean Up Memorial Park to Big Run
In other recycling and litter prevention news, the county’s compost facility’s contract with Park Enterprise Construction Co. will end June 30.
Baugher said he’s working with Delaware Knox Marion Morrow Solid Waste District ahead of negotiations for a potential contract renewal.
The current contract includes the removal and proper disposal of unacceptable materials, keeping the delivered yard waste material pushed back into piles ensuring available space for residents to leave compostable supplies.
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