Wayfinding and Healing in Time of Change Fall Convening_Speakers

The Public History Project and The Mahikaniitukw Project request your honored presence and participation in this gathering.

“Flipping the Script - On a River That Flows Both Ways” was the 2024 convening of Indigenous culture bearers, land-water defenders, healers, researchers, teachers, and artists. We shared with colleagues, allies, and supporters to challenge the narrative on history of our land and people.

2025 brings new, immediate challenges and a loss of support structure due to great changes in our institutions. Indigenous heritage holds millennia of wayfinding and healing. We ask for the honor of your presence to gather and pass the talking stick about finding our way toward healing the wounds of colonization and extraction – old and new.

Indigenous people and our allies are working along many paths toward restoration and harmony. Please come and share about your work - landmarks on the good path in Two Row partnership for our friends and colleagues. We come together to identify good paths and to help our allies, partners, and colleagues develop our own structures to support the continuation of decolonization and restoration.

We are making space at the Crowne Plaza Hotel by IHG in Newark for this gathering. Please promptly email Honnee Foster to honnee.foster@rutgers.edu and/ or Claudia Sepulveda to claudiaebs.newark@rutgers.edu with the following information:

1.Full name (first, middle, last) as shown on your official ID

2.Best phone number and email

3.Travel needs:

Best Airport or train station (departure and return)

Travel date departure and return

Hotel accomodations ( check in and check out date)

Nations and communities of today’s Tristate region have millennia of complex relationships with All Our Relatives, Land, and Water that continue to inform and impact the character of the region. Map by Andraes Visscher, 1685.

Selected Indigenous villages, trails, and places of cultural importance in the complex of estuaries adjoining the great bay of Mahikaniitukw. Map by Kerry Hardy (based on Bolton’s 1922 map)