In recognition of Indigenous Peoples day, Save Native Sites is presenting a series of talks on the life and culture of the area’s first inhabitants. At 11am, Evan Pritchard, historian, writer, and musician, will give a lecture on “Westward Migrations; Esopus-Munsee on the Susquehanna.”

At 1pm, Doc “Mud Turtle” Morgan, Ramapough/Lenape elder, will speak about growing up in Mahwah, NJ. on ancestral lands of the Ramapough/Lenape people. As a child, he and his family lived largely on and from the land, but over the decades (four generations), he witnessed changes that “development” brought to the Ramapo mountains and the Ramapo River.

For more information, visit Persen House Schedule.