The New York State Museum Cultural Education Center, Empire State Plaza, Madison Avenue , Albany, will be the location of the 11th Annual Algonquian Peoples Seminar. Registration is from 9 to 9:30 am on Saturday, April 30.
Some highlights:
• Archaeological Research on First Peoples of Eastern New York and the New England-Maritimes – Humans first explored New York about 13,000 years ago as this region was emerging from the Ice Age. With glacial retreat, eastern New York was the physical gateway through which Paleoindians entered the broader New England-Maritimes (NEM) region extending east through New England to Québec, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
• Life’s Immortal Shell: Wampum as a Light and Life Metaphor .11:00 – 11:20 JoAnne Schedler
• The Stockbridge-Munsee Soldiers in the Civil War 1861-1865.
• The Stephentown Mounds – 2:40 to 3 pm with Warren F. Broderick. Warren F. Broderick is Archivist Emeritus for the New York State Archives, Albany. With a background as a historian, he has authored five books, edited or contributed to ten others, and written a number of journal articles on natural history, and American literary and local historical subjects, in particular New York State’s Native Americans in literature.