Tannery Talk | The First Adirondackers
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2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
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Sunday, November 8 | 2 PM
Suggested donation at the door: $10
Book Signing & Sales: The authors will have their book available for purchase and will sign it after the talk. Books are $20; they will accept cash or check.
The First Adirondackers: 12,000 Years of Indigenous Peoples in the Adirondack Uplands.
Talk Summary - A widespread claim holds that nobody lived in the Adirondacks before Euro-American colonizers arrived. It is false. New research helps to confirm what Indigenous cultural traditions have held all along, that people have lived in the Adirondack uplands since time immemorial. In this multicultural collaboration, artist David Kanietakeron Fadden and scientist Curt Stager join forces to challenge the false claim of absence with evidence of Indigenous presence on the land from the end of the last ice age to the present day. Through their blending of art and science, they demonstrate that the rich human story in the Adirondacks is, quite literally, "older than the trees."
Book Summary - The First Adirondackers challenges the widespread, long-standing belief that the Adirondack uplands of northern New York were uninhabited before the arrival of European colonizers. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Through local indigenous traditions and supporting findings by natural science, authors David Fadden and Curt Stager expose, document, and honor the long human presence in the Adirondacks, helping not only to redefine what it means to be an Adirondacker, but also contributing to a more complete understanding of America itself. Fadden, a master storyteller and renowned painter, uses traditional oral history and stunning works of art to capture the humanity and vitality of Indigenous peoples of the region. Stager, a natural science professor at Paul Smith’s College, explains in scientific terms how people are elementally linked to the Adirondack region through his own research on environmental and cultural history. By challenging the predominant Eurocentric narrative of the Adirondacks, The First Adirondackers does not seek to erase history, but rather to help recover a proud and wonderful history.
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