Putney Mountain Association Annual Meeting

Sunday, January 13, 2019

4-6 pm

Putney Community Center

Guest Speaker, Rich Holschuh Rich is a resident of Wantastegok (Brattleboro, VT) of Mi’kmaq, Wendat, and European heritage and an indigenous cultural researcher. He serves on the Vermont Commission for Native American Affairs and as a public liaison for the Elnu Abenaki Tribe, representing with governmental agencies of oversight. He works with the contemporary Abenaki community, partnering with a wide variety of other groups to provide outreach and build connections. Rich entitles his presentation “Talking with the Mountain: a traditional perspective on being in relationship with Place.” Drawing from history, linguistics, geography, cosmology, and the concept of indigeneity, he will share other ways of seeing and being on the land, through the process of being present and making connections.