Indigenous Mapping, Descriptive Geography & Place Names
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Museum of the White Mountains
Presented live via Zoom with time for Q&A. Pre-registration is required.
Learn how Indigenous people explored, navigated, and traveled. Explore how and why Indigenous people graphically described their world, geology, and geography, and the place name locations, rivers, lakes, and other geographic features that were important to Indigenous people in New Hampshire and the Northeast. Presented by Paul W. Pouliot, the Sag8mo or Chief Speaker since 1990 and Denise K. Pouliot, the Sag8moskwa (Female Head Speaker) for the Cowasuck Band of the Pennacook and Abenaki People.
Presented as part of the Museum’s summer exhibition: “Wayfinding: Maps of the White Mountains.” The Summer 2020 Speaker Series was made possible with support from New Hampshire Humanities, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Humanities. Learn more at www.nhhumanities.org
Registration link: https://plymouthstate.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUpcOqgqToqHdYEyAV5aikJK9OPssZZgp-H