Lenape Myth and Culture.
Lone Bear, a Lenape, made reproduction Lenape artifacts using the same materials and methods practiced hundreds of years ago. Listen to the oral histories of the Lenape, the creation myths, and other lore that embody the Lenape culture, while participants have an opportunity to handle gourd bowls and deer hide hunting bags and seed bags. Why did the Lenape leave New Jersey? What happened when western Europeans arrived in the Mid-Atlantic colonies? This program focuses on life through the Lenape’s eyes.
Douglas T. Aumack has been working in the museum field for over two decades. He was the Curator and Deputy Director for the Naval Air Station Wildwood Aviation Museum, the Education Coordinator for the USS Constellation Museum, in Baltimore, and has spent most of his career working as the Resource Interpretive Specialist for the Middlesex County Division of History and Historic Preservation. He has researched and presented papers on at the New Jersey History Forum and the New Jersey Council for Social Studies. The subjects he has presented has included child labor, patent medicine, and indigenous people. He was the Executive Producer of “Middlesex County History” a podcast series that focused on projects/programs of the Arts Institute of Middlesex County. The first podcast season focused on the archaeology of Raritan Landing, an 18th century community buried under a Middlesex County Park.
