Join us to celebrate Chwame Gischuch: Under the Shad Moon. This immersive spring program explores the traditions and lifeways of the region’s early inhabitants, offering visitors a hands-on look at Indigenous history and early American life.

The “Shad Moon” marks the spring return of American shad to rivers like the Hackensack to spawn. For Indigenous communities, including the Lenape, this migration signaled the end of winter scarcity and the start of renewed abundance—later recognized by colonial settlers as an important seasonal marker.

Join Drew Shuptar Rayvis for a presentation on Scouts and Soldiers: Native Americans in the Colonial Militias and Wars. He will speak on the extent of Native American involvement in the military and militia during the colonial wars of the 18^th century and demonstrate combat tools, fire making techniques, wampum making, and other survival strategies of the times.

 Primitive Technologist Steve Adams had to cancel his presentation due…