Native American Portage Routes
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Join author Evan Prichard, a descendant of the Micmac people (part of the Algonquin nations), founder of Center for Algonquin Culture, and former Professor of Native American history and ethics at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York, as well as has taught at Vassar College and Pace University. He is the author of Native New Yorkers, The Legacy of the Algonquin People of New York. He is also the author of the widely praised No Word For Time, The Way of the Algonquin People, and many other books, including an Algonkian language series.
Rondout Creek, Chestnut Creek, Neversink River, Callicoon Creek, and the Delaware were all probably and provably interconnected by various portage routes, and today's route 55 is a remnant of that. He will also talk about the portage route through Stamford (traced by route 23) and the chain of portage routes west from the Esopus now traced by route 28.
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