See University Days 2022 past programming below and check out the We Are Still Here podcast:

We Are Still Here: Indigenous Peoples of The Northeast, joined together for a special presentation with the producer of Living Well Into The Future, begins to reveal why, if, and whether indigenous peoples of the northeast are still here. It contains history we never learned, and a present we might not have not known before.

Part 1

The broadcast is an anthology of insights gleaned from interviews  by Julie Koppenheffer, host, with some of the indigenous artists, and lecturers, and discussion and walk leaders who participated in the month-long program We Are Still here: Indigenous Peoples of the Northeast, organized by the University Day Committee of Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Berkshire Community College. 

Guests include Carol Allman-Morton, Executive Director Berkshire OLLI; Dr. Drew Lopenzina, professor of Early American and Native Literature; Indigenous artists, Judy Dow and Nyana LaFond; Russ Cohen, naturalist and wild foods enthusiast; Michael Forbes Wilcox and Dr. Katherine M. Kidd, teachers, discussion and walk leaders; with music by Hawk Henries, Native American flute maker and flute player.  

We Are Still Here: Indigenous Peoples of The Northeast, Broadcast SATURDAY, November 26 at 7 p.m. on WTBRFM, 89.7, Pittsfield, MA and on WTBRFM.com.
The broadcast is available here or where ever you get your podcasts - Apple Play, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, and Stitcher.

Part 2

We Are Still Here: Indigenous Peoples of The Northeast, a special presentation from the producer of Living Well Into The Future, awakens listeners to the history and presence of the indigenous peoples in the northeast with a focus on Western Massachusetts, and Stockbridge Massachusetts, formerly Indian Town, in particular.

Through interviews with members of the University Days Committee of Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Berkshire Community College, a 1500-member organization of learners and doers 55 and older, who organized and presented the month-long program We Are Still here: Indigenous Peoples of the Northeast, Julie Koppenheffer, host, brings their insights, knowledge, and reactions to the lectures, art exhibits, concert, walks, and book discussions to listeners. 

Guests include: Barbara Lane, President of the board of OLLI at BCC, University Day Committee Members Dr. Katherine M. Kidd,  chair, and Michael Forbes Wilcox, Ellen Crobier, and Barbara Grill, with music by Hawk Henries, Native American flute maker and player

Broadcast SATURDAY, December 3, 2022 at 7 p.m. on WTBRFM, 89.7, Pittsfield, MA and on WTBRFM.com
Beginning at 8 p.m., the broadcast will be available here, or where ever you get your podcasts - Apple Play, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, and Stitcher.

We Are Still Here: Indigenous Peoples of the Northeast

University Days 2022 

Have you ever wondered what happened to the estimated 100,000 Native Americans who lived in Massachusetts before European contact and settlement? We Are Still Here: Indigenous Peoples of the Northeast will give OLLI members and the public opportunities to begin to answer that question.  

Explore art shows, music performances, tours of historic sites with emphasis on connections with the Indigenous community, guided reading groups focused on books by Indigenous authors of the Northeast, and four online lectures by leading scholars. Listen to the music of Hawk Henries, a Nipmuc flutist who makes and plays traditional Nipmuc flutes with the London Mozart Players and at the New Orleans Jazz Festival. View the art of Judy Dow, an artist of Abenaki and French Canadian descent, educator and activist whose baskets have been on display at the Smithsonian and whose tapestries have been on exhibit in Europe with the UN Indigenous organization. Read books by Abenaki, Wabanaki and Haudenosanee authors to share with children in your life. Walk Main Street, Stockbridge and learn about the Mohicans and settler missionaries who founded Stockbridge as an experiment in multicultural living in the mid-18th century.