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ECHO Lake Aquarium
and Science
Center, at the Leahy Center
for Lake Champlain
INDIGENOUS
EXPRESSIONS Speaker Series, FREE
on Tuesdays March 24 – May 5
From
cooking rocks to the latest archaeological finds, landscape changes to
cultural
stories, ECHO’s INDIGENOUS EXPRESSIONS Speaker Series
enables visitors to ask questions of experts about the artifacts,
foods, and stories
of the native people as portrayed in our exhibit. ECHO's
Quadricentennial experience features archaeological and interactive
exhibits, events,
speakers, and a contemporary indigenous peoples’ Portrait Gallery, all
celebrating the vibrant past and future of our Native neighbors.
4:00 –
4:30 p.m. ECHO will
be open for FREE public
viewing of
our exhibit INDIGENOUS EXPRESSIONS: Native Peoples of the Lake Champlain Basin
4:30 –
5:15 p.m. Speaker
5:15 –
6:00 p.m. Questions
and Light refreshments
Tuesday,
March 24, 4:00 –
6:00 p.m.
INDIGENOUS EXPRESSIONS Speaker Series:
Cooking Rocks. Join Charles Paquin, Archaeologist, as he discusses
some of
these questions: What is the perfect cooking rock? What do rocks tell
us about
how Native Americans cooked their foods and what foods they cooked?
What
archaeological objects are found in a Native American hearth?
Tuesday,
March 31, 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. INDIGENOUS
EXPRESSIONS Speaker Series: Indigenous Identity in the 21st
Century Green Mountain
State. Join Dr. Fred Wiseman,
Abenaki Historian, as he addresses key questions:
Unlike any other minority, Native Americans cannot self-identify, but
must have
their identity bestowed upon them by the government. So who is a
Vermont
Indian? Why can’t Indigenous Abenaki Indians sell their arts and
crafts
as “made by American Indians?” What does one have to do to maintain a
Native
American identity in the 21st century? On this 400th
anniversary of
the European Discovery of Lake Champlain, there is still little
agreement among
politicians, scholars, and Indians themselves about who the Vermont
Abenakis
really are. Professor Wiseman looks at the underlying issues involved
with Vermont’s
understanding
of its indigenous peoples. Illustrating
his talk with clips from his 2006 movie “Against the Darkness,” he
explores the
identity politics that still bedevil relations and between the larger
Abenaki community
and their Vermont neighbors, and offers some tentative solutions to
this thorny
problem in Northeastern race relations.
Tuesday,
April 7, 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. INDIGENOUS
EXPRESSIONS Speaker Series: Forests of Pre-Settlement Lake
Champlain Basin.
Join Charlie Cogbill,
Historic
Forest Ecologist, as he addresses key questions: What would the
landscape of
pre-settlement Lake
Champlain Basin
look like and how
have human influences changed our natural communities? How did
surveyors divide
the earliest settler lots? What is a “witness tree?”
Tuesday,
April 14, 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. INDIGENOUS
EXPRESSIONS Speaker Series: The First People. Join
John Crock, UVM, Director, Consulting
Archaeology Program (CAP),
as he
discusses from his chapter in the book: “Lake Champlain: An
Illustrated History.”
Since the ice age, humans have been a constant feature of the landscape
in the Lake Champlain
Basin. What is it
that archaeologists
have found in the region that help tell the story of settlement in this
area?
What has been found that helps to tell about their nomadic lifestyle?
Book
signing.
Tuesday,
April 21, 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. INDIGENOUS
EXPRESSIONS Speaker Series: Early People & Plants. Join Kit Anderson, UVM, Ethnobiologist, as she
addresses
key questions: What can plants tell us about the earliest people? How
were
people’s diet changed by weather? What plants were used as exports or
adopted
by First Nations people?
Tuesday,
April 28, 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. INDIGENOUS
EXPRESSIONS Speaker Series: Film Highlights. Join
Abenaki historian and film producer, Dr. Fred
Wiseman,
as he shows clips and tells stories of his film “1609: The Other Side
of
History” about the discovery of Lake Champlain
by the French from a Native perspective.
Tuesday,
May 5, 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. INDIGENOUS
EXPRESSIONS Speaker Series: Film Highlights. Join Peabody
Award-winner Ted Timreck, with highlights of his film “Before the Lake
was
Champlain.” This ground breaking film documents the long and careful
process
that has unfolded one of the great archaeological mysteries of North America while exploring
the cultural and environmental history of the Basin from the receding
glaciers
to the coming of Europeans in 1609
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