Friends of Buttonhook Forest proudly presents:
EIGHT COATS, SEVEN SHIRTS, FIFTEEN FATHOM WAMPUM:
EARLY COLONIAL SETTLEMENT AND THE FIRST DEEDS (1650-1690)
with Drew Shuptar-Rayvis
Saturday, November 26 from 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Ages 8 and up
$10 per person
$25 per family
New Castle Community Center
18 Senter Street
Chappaqua, NY 10514
Registration Required - Limited Capacity
Spend an afternoon with Drew Shuptar-Rayvis and go back in time.
Drew will not only speak to us of these times, he will also demonstrate and represent them. His attire and objects reflect the interconnected relationships between the Dutch, English, and Algonkian peoples and represent the adaptation of Native American life to European settlement and trade goods, including the importance and use of wampum.
Explore the interconnected relationships between the Dutch, Swedes, English and Algonkian peoples in their respective regions/colonies. Track the adaptation of Native American life to European settlement and trade goods, including the importance and use of wampum through this critical period along the Atlantic and mid-Atlantic regions (south western CT to MD). Understand the magnitude of the earliest American culture clashes through customs of war, adoption, captivity, alliance, friendships and marriages between Natives, Europeans and Africans. Contrast the discrepancies in the concepts of land ownership and usage. Discuss the overshadowed early colonial conflicts: the Peach War, Keift’s War, King Phillip’s War and King William’s War.
Drew Shuptar-Rayvis
(Pekatawas Makatawe'U “Black Corn”) holds a cum laude Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology and Sociology from Western Connecticut State University and a Certificate Degree in Archaeology from Norwalk Community College. A true American of the mid-Atlantic region, his family includes indigenous Pocomoke heritage, Pennsylvania Dutch, Welsh, Swiss, English, Scots-Irish, Boyko Ukrainian and Ashkanazi Jewish, he
honors all of his ancestors as a practicing living historian and regularly participates in colonial era reenactments, interpretations and public educational events.
He has studied and become proficient in the reading of Wampum and works diligently in the research and preservation of the Eastern Woodland languages, particularly Renape and Mahican and is educated in the many European languages at use in the Colonial Period. He was the first garden manager of Western Connecticut State University’s
Permaculture Garden, and practices Native horticulture. In July 2021, Drew was elected by his Paramount Chief Norris Howard Senior and Vice Chief Norris Howard Junior as Cultural Ambassador of the Pocomoke Indian Nation of Maryland.
We are honored to host Drew Shuptar-Rayvis in Chappaqua.
