The Wappingers of the Hudson Highlands, PHM’s 117th Annual Meeting
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Location: Butterfield Condominium’s Recreation Room, 19-25 Butterfield Road, Cold Spring, NY 10516 Cold Spring, NY 10516
2:00 pm: PHM’s 117th Annual Business Meeting
2:30 pm: Evan Pritchard presents “The Wappinger of the Hudson Highlands”
3:30 pm: Light refreshments served
The PHM’s 117th Annual Meeting program will feature a presentation by Native American Studies lecturer and author Evan Pritchard. Mr. Pritchard’s presentation includes highlights from three previous Putnam-oriented lectures, featuring recent and new research of the “Highland” Wappingers of the Hudson Highlands. The presentation will include maps and place names with linguistic interpretations, plus trails, villages, rivers, and more. The talk will be followed by a Q and A period and book signing.
Speaker Biography: Evan Pritchard of MI’kmaq descent, has been doing field interviews with Native American elders since 1990, and has been the director of Center for Algonquin culture for the last 24 years. A lecturer on native studies at Vassar, Pace, Marist, Columbia, SUNY, John Jay, University of Ontario, UMass, and Ramapough State, he has also presented at Gracie Mansion, AMNH, Smithsonian, and online.
He is currently presenting a retrospective of his mapping work at the Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries (Clarkson University), and has been invited to lecture at Lehman College this spring.
He has written over fifty books on native culture, history, language and spirituality, including Native New Yorkers; Henry Hudson and the Algonquins (Chicago Review Press); Bird Medicine (Inner Traditions/Simon and Schuster); Native American Stories of the Sacred (Turner Books) No Word For Time (Millichap), Red Head Band (Resonance Books) a collection of multi-lingual (English and various Algonquian languages) poetry, and Greetings from Mawenawasic (Foothills Publishing).Poems from Greetings were the basis of a portion of a Native American stage play called Cedars, which premiered at Lamama in New York, an iconic off-Broadway venue, and some appeared in Chris Felver’s film and tabletop anthology book Tending The Fire (University of New Mexico Press, foreword by Simon Ortiz).
He has lectured frequently on The Way of the Heron, a body of traditional Algonquin knowledge about conflict resolution and trust building. Evan facilitated workshops in Wabenaki culture at Northwoods Stewardship Center July 4-10, 2017 (Charleston, VT) as part of the Cultural Regeneration Project and has been a frequent guest on Pacifica’s Mocassin Tracks Radio with Deb Reger. He has appeared annually at the Pocumtuck Festival in Greenfield, Ma for many years, and lectured twice at Greenfield’s Discovery Center.
He has published many original maps of Native American settlements east of the Mississippi and was featured in Ted Timreck’s film Hidden Landscapes as well as Tobe Carey’s documentary Mountain River.
He has appeared on dozens of radio stations including WBAI, and WNYC, and appeared as a featured guest on CNN, ABC, Discovery Channel, History Channel, and on Roger Hernandez’ 90 minute special “Touring Native New York” on Manhattan Cable. He can be reached at evan.pritchard7@gmail.com or www.algonquinculture.org.