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Museum hosts Mohican exhibition

May 29, 2023 12:55 pm

Kenneth C. Crowe II reports in the Times Union about the exhibition at the Mission House Museum in Stockbridge through November on Mohican history and culture from the Stockbridge-Munsee Community. They Mohicans were driven away from this area centuries ago, and are now based in Wisconsin. “We’re hoping people have an opportunity to come. It’s a tribal-produced exhibit here in our homeland,” said Bonney Hartley, tribal historic preservation manager for the Stockbridge-Munsee Community Band of the Mohican Indians, another way the tribe is called. The exhibition is called, “Our Lands, Our Home, Our Heart/Nda'keenã , Weekeyaak , Nda'anã.” During the show the museum will hosts talks from Maggie Bennett, on “Mohican Travels through Storymapping,” on Saturday, Sept. 23, Kim Hoffman, on “Healing Within the Community,” on Monday, Oct. 9, Lucy Grignon, on “Honoring Our Traditional Seed Relatives,” on Saturday, Oct. 21, Dr. Sandee Barton, on “What is Indigenous Education,” Saturday, Nov. 4 and Misty Cook, about “Tribal Medicines,” Monday, Nov. 18. Read more about this story in the Times Union.