{"id":3527,"date":"2020-01-20T19:03:51","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T00:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/?page_id=3527"},"modified":"2020-04-12T16:47:13","modified_gmt":"2020-04-12T20:47:13","slug":"olli-indigenous-culture-in-the-berkshires-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/olli\/olli-indigenous-culture-in-the-berkshires-and-beyond\/","title":{"rendered":"OLLI: Indigenous Culture in the Berkshires and Beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Six Mondays beginning April 13, 2020, from 12:30 to 2:00 PM as a Zoom webinar<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/berkshireolli.wildapricot.org\/event-3764865\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Registration<\/a><\/strong> is now open. (<strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/berkshireolli.wildapricot.org\/page-1075763\" target=\"_blank\">Course M103<\/a><\/strong>) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Materials for Session One can be found <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/olli\/olli-indigenous-culture-in-the-berkshires-and-beyond\/indigenous-cultures-session-one\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"at this link. (opens in a new tab)\">at this link.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is a brief description of the course: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Today\u2019s headlines feature climate crisis and civic strife. In contrast, for thousands of years, local indigenous people lived in harmony with the land, and with each other.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>By exploring the culture (beliefs and practices) of the Muh-he-con-neok (Mohican) people, who are the original inhabitants of the Berkshires, we will see the influence they, and other indigenous cultures in the Americas, have had (and continue to have) on our present society.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Through presentations, suggested readings, and discussions, we will observe lessons learned and lessons missed; and the relevance of indigenous culture, then and now, to the larger questions of human experience.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p> During this course, we will discuss The Sweep of History, the Variety and Sophistication of Indigenous American Cultures (including the Haudenosaunee, the Inkas, the Abenaki, our own Mohicans, and others), and the impact that European and American ways had upon each other (e.g. the Little Ice Age, and the Enlightenment Philosophers, whose thinking influenced the rebellion of the English colonists).  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> I&#8217;ve used some of what I&#8217;ve learned to create <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/2020-Alford-Land-Acknowledgment.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>a land acknowledgment for my town<\/strong><\/a>.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six Mondays beginning April 13, 2020, from 12:30 to 2:00 PM as a Zoom webinar Registration is now open. (Course M103) Materials for Session One can be found at this link. Here is a brief description of the course: Today\u2019s headlines feature climate crisis and civic strife. In contrast, for thousands of years, local indigenous &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/olli\/olli-indigenous-culture-in-the-berkshires-and-beyond\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3229,"parent":3456,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3527"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3527"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3596,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3527\/revisions\/3596"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}