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7. NATIVE LIFE–HUDSON VALLEY REVOLUTIONARY ERA

LENAPE TECHNOLOGIES

Barry Keegan demonstrates early life and technology of Native American peoples who lived along the Hudson River Valley from 12,000 years ago. He engages the audience with hands-on activities (making arrowheads and twine from local plants), and Lenape technologies: flintknapping of stone tools, gunflint making, spear points, making animal glue, and using mortar and pestle for grinding grains and nuts. This program can also include a display and demonstration of: bows, arrows, atlatls and darts, animal and fish traps, fish spears, nets, hooks, lines, animal hide and fur clothing, footwear, watercraft such as bark canoe and dugout (model sizes), paddles, cordage from rawhide.

Audience: Ages 8+ Duration: 2 hours (flexible)

Presenter: Barry Keegan Fee: $350 Contact: bskeegan436@gmail.com

Availability: Flexible Site Requirements: This can be an indoor or outdoor program. Tables or blankets on the ground for display. A longer program, with an additional fee, can be requested.

Barry Keegan demonstrates one of the ways Lenape made fire.

Loyalty and Zeal: Algonkians of the Revolution

1774-1783 - Join Drew Shuptar-Rayvis, citizen of the Pocomoke Indian Nation, to honor the contributions, struggles and sacrifices made by Algonkian peoples during the War of American Independence. Explore the complex political paths of patriotism, Toryism and neutrality trod by Algonkian and Iroquoian people as they worked to preserve their way of life in the face of overwhelming odds during the Revolution. Consider both the devastation of the Sullivan Campaign and the contributions to the shape of history made by numerous Algonkian people, both patriot and loyalist.

Audience: 9-adult Duration: 30 minutes-2 hours (program can be customized)

Presenter: Drew Shuptar-Rayvis

Fee: $700 (fee varies based on program length). Travel expenses over 1 hour.

Contact: dshup1000@aol.com

Drew Shuptar-Rayvis shares Algonkian customs.

Scouts and Soldiers: Native Americans in the Colonial Militias and Wars

1750-1780s - Discover the extent of Native American involvement in the military and militia during the colonial wars of the 18th century. Handle crucial woodland and combat tools of the period such as firearms, water carrying devices and pack baskets; test European and Native American fire making techniques and survival methods; and explore the networks of alliances between Natives and Europeans and the power of wampum belts to represent those alliances.

Audience: 9-adult Duration: 30 minutes-2 hours (program can be customized)

Presenter: Drew Shuptar-Rayvis

Fee: $600 (fee varies based on program length). Travel expenses over 1 hour.

Contact: dshup1000@aol.com

Site Requirements: Outdoor area if cooking is included and allowed. No musket firing.