Hidden Landscapes Film Series: Before the Lake Was Champlain

River Valley Co-op is proud to present the second in the Nolumbeka Project's film series:

Before The Lake Was Champlain

Saturday, March 6th at 2:00 PM
"An Untold Story of Ice Age America"

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The documentary “Before the Lake Was Champlain: An Untold Story of Ice Age America” will be shown on Saturday, March 6, 2 p.m. EST, followed by a panel discussion / Q&A. Stories about “Lost Races” are usually labeled “Fantastic Archaeology” and quickly dismissed, but a surprising new discovery along an ancient beach terrace of the Champlain Sea has introduced an unknown chapter of the Native history of Ice Age America. This tiny artifact suggests that an early and sophisticated culture once existed in the Northeast that anthropologists are just beginning to recognize. The lives of these ancient people were far different from the social models that archaeologists had previously developed for Paleo Indians and the implications of the new discoveries are far reaching through Eastern Native Civilizations. This program documents the long and careful process that has unfolded one of the greatest archaeological mysteries of North America.

Join guest Panelist Dr. Fred Wiseman, Coordinator of the Vermont Indigenous Heritage Center, an Indigenous rights activist and author of many scholarly and popular books on archaeology, ethnohistory and ethnobotany joins Doug Harris, Ceremonial Stone Landscapes researcher, and Ted Timreck, Smithsonian associate and director of the Hidden Landscapes films, for film and discussion.

Vermont Indigenous Heritage Center Coordinator Fred Wiseman

The Hidden Landscape Project represents the joined efforts of professional, Native, and Antiquarian researchers who have generously volunteered to combine their expertise into a chronicle of research - a series of video stories that investigate the archaeological history and the modern legacy of the Northeastern Native civilization. The combined vision of so many researchers working together also represents a new approach to the long-standing and often very heated controversy that surrounds the ceremonial stone landscapes of North America. Join Doug Harris, Ceremonial Stone Landscapes researcher, Ted Timreck, director of the Hidden Landscapes films, and guest panelists for a five-part series featuring the films with panel discussions and Q & A.

Dates: Saturday, February 13 and Sunday, February 14; also, Saturdays March 6, 13, 29, all at 2 pm EST.

This series is co-sponsored by the Nolumbeka Project, River Valley Co-op, and the Karuna Center for Peace Building and a grant from the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities. Registration is required and limited to 500. Donations are requested. Pre-screenings are available for a fee at www.twtimreck.com. Visit www.nolumbekaproject.org to register or donate.
 

Hidden Landscapes schedule:

• Saturday, February 13, 2 pm EST, The Great Falls, Part I:  Discovery, Destruction and Preservation in a Massachusetts Town
• Sunday, February 14, 2 pm EST, The Great Falls, Part II:  Discovery, Destruction and Preservation in a Massachusetts Town  
• Saturday, March 6, 2 pm EST, Before the Lake Was Champlain: An Untold Story of Ice Age America. Guest panelist Dr. Fred Wiseman 
• Saturday, March 13, 2 p.m. EST, The New Antiquarians, Working Together to Unlock the Mysterious Stone Ruins, Guest Panelist Evan Pritchard, Director Center for Algonquin Studies
• Saturday, March 20, 2 p.m. EST, The Devil's Footstep, A New Vision of Early Native Life, Guest panelist Tim Mentz, Standing Rock Tribal Historic Preservation Officer
  
  

About the presenters:

• Doug Harris, Ceremonial Stone Landscapes Preservationist, is a veteran of twenty years of historic preservation work in the Northeast
• W. Timreck is a Peabody award-winning documentary filmmaker whose programs have been featured on PBS and other networks around the globe. “Hidden Landscapes” is a multi-part series that tells the story of early Eastern Native American sea cultures and offers a radical perspective on the Indigenous history of northeastern North America
• Professor Frederick M. Wiseman is the Coordinator of the Vermont Indigenous Heritage Center, an Indigenous rights activist and author of many scholarly and popular books on archaeology, ethnohistory and ethnobotany
• Evan Pritchard (Mi'kmaq descendant) is the author of 18 hardcover and trade paperback titles (including four anthologies and two self-published paperbacks) plus 36 other self-published books to date. As a popular adjunct professor, he has taught courses in Native American studies at Marist, Vassar and Pace
• Tim Mentz, of the Standing Rock Sioux of South Dakota, became the nation’s first Tribal Historic Preservation Officer (THPO). Tim is co-owner of Makoche Wowapi (earth writings), a 17-person cultural resources firm focused on the identification and protection of Dakota/Lakota cultural heritage sites.