31st American Indian Workshop will feature Unkechaug Sovereign Immunity case

From March 25-28th the American Centre in Prague will host the 31st American Indian Workshop: “Transformation, Translation, Transgression: Native American Culture in Contact and Context.”  Professor Emeritus of History John Strong of Southampton will present at a session titled: Eastern Indian Voices: Culture and Identity and speak on “Meeting Montoya: How the Unkechaug Nation Asserted Sovereign [...]

Howard Treadwell

Visiting Poospatuck and working with the Unkechaug Nation has been very educational in learning the history of the tribe but also in meeting the individuals that comprise it.  Without the individual voice, the whole is not complete, and vice-versa.  I had the good chance of meeting Howard Treadwell, a slam poet whose raw style captures [...]

Unkechaug U.S. Census 2010, 8nkowa!

I recently visited the Poospatuck Reservation on Long Island and met with tribal council member Mary Treadwell.  After a nice lunch, Ms. Treadwell showed me around the Poospatuck Reservation and briefed me on history and development of the Unkechaug Nation. Mary’s commitment to the Nation’s development was obvious in the projects she described to me were [...]