Happening This Thursday

On Thursday, June 4, the Jacob Leisler Institute for the Study of Early New York History, in collaboration with the Columbia County Libraries Association and the Hudson Area Library, hosts Wartime Refugee Crisis in the Hudson Valley, 1754-1763, a lecture by Tom Arne Midtrød, Ph.D., associate professor of history at the University of Iowa. The event takes place on Zoom, beginning at 6:00 p.m. 

Midtrød will discuss how the outbreak of the Seven Years' War affected Mahican and Munsee-speaking populations in the Hudson Valley. During this conflict, many Native groups felt themselves pressured to relocate to new areas both inside and outside the Valley, creating a refugee crisis that led to varied responses from both colonial officials and Mohawks and other members of the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) Six Nations.

 

Old Fort Johnson, a central location during the refugee crisis of Mahican and Munsee-speaking populations in the Hudson Valley during the Seven Years' War

For more information and to register (required to get the Zoom link), click here.