YONKERS- Philipse Manor Hall State Historic Site located at 29 Warburton Avenue in Yonkers is pleased to host Drew Shuptar-Rayvis (Pekatawas MakataWai’U “Black Corn”) to deliver his lecture titled: “Friendship and Bloodshed: The Brief and Complicated History of the Dutch-Native Wars, 1643-1664” on Wednesday, October 11, 2023.
Diplomacy, trade, corn taxes, burned long houses – the history of Dutch-Indigenous relations in the New Netherland colony is complicated. Historian and cultural ambassador of the Pocomoke Indian Nation Drew Shuptar-Rayvis discusses the causes and effects of Dutch colonization in the mid-Atlantic and the main conflicts of the Hudson Valley: Kiefts War (1643-45), the Peach Tree
War (1655), and the Esopus Wars (1659-1664).
This lecture is offered in person as well as virtually 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 11, 2023.
Seating is limited. Call 914-965-4027 or email john.farrell@parks.ny.gov to reserve your spot. Tickets are $6 for adults, $3 for seniors and students, pay at the door. Doors open at 6:45 p.m. The museum is open from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Drew Shuptar-Rayvis is a public historian who seeks to preserve the language, history, and culture of Eastern Woodlands people, particularly the Renape, Nanticoke, and Southern Unami. He works as an Algonkian historical consultant with the New Amsterdam History Center and for the Maryland State Archives as a contractual research and preservation specialist, working with tribal oral histories and lifeways.
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