Exploring the Indian Mariners Project with Dr. Jason Mancini

Explore the Indian Mariners Project with Dr. Jason Mancini , Executive Director of Connecticut Humanities, during his lecture “Preserved on the Mighty Waters" on September 27 at the New Bedford Whaling Museum. Dr. Mancini established the research project to explore the history of and ongoing relationship between Native people and the sea. Deprived of land and livelihood after the American Revolution, many Indian men joined the maritime trades – from shipbuilding to whaling. Dr. Mancini's lecture focuses on the hundreds of Indians that found work in the ports of Mystic, Stonington, and New London and explores their “roots” and “routes,” the global social networks they formed, and their traveling histories from the objects they collected and stories they told. Dr. Mancini will present whaleship routes mapped on Google Earth, details from explorations in Hawaii, New Zealand, and Alaska, as well as his own experiences on the “mighty waters.” Dr. Mancini is co-founder of Akomawt Educational Initiative, and former Executive Director of the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center. Over the past 30 years, he has worked with, conversed, and shared his archival research with the tribes and indigenous peoples of southern New England, Alaska, Hawai’i, and New Zealand. Tickets are $10 for NBWM members; $15 for non-members. Reception at 6 pm; Lecture at 7 pm.