Dover400, a committee of residents organizing Dover’s 400th Anniversary, continues its historical lecture series chronicling Dover’s significant past with a virtual presentation on Indigenous lifeways and history in the seventeenth century, to be held on Feb. 9, 2021 at 7 p.m. It will be recorded if you miss it. You can find the link to the previous lecture in the Dover Download from Friday, Jan. 15. Or on the event listing from last month's program in the library's calendar.

Coming off its inaugural session – "Indigenous People of the Piscataqua Watershed" – which had more than 400 attendees, the February lecture features Paul and Denise Pouliot, who will discuss the myths, misconceptions, food-ways, lifeways, and history of an acculturated and assimilated Indigenous People, and offer a contemporary analysis of being a descendant of those ancient People. The Pouliots will address important background information from paleo times up to colonial contact and end with the consequences of colonial encroachment and violence that led to King Philip’s War, which had a major impact on colonial Dover.

To view the recording of this program go to this link. dovernh.viebit.com/player.php?hash=4k0jdzXnB4Fh

Paul W. Pouliot has been the Sag8mo or Chief Speaker since 1990 and Denise K. Pouliot is the Sag8moskwa (Female Head Speaker) for the Cowasuck Band of the Pennacook and Abenaki People. They serve as president and treasurer respectively of COWASS North America and the Abenaki Nation of Vermont since 1990.  Paul is an Indigenous historian, lecturer, and a founding member of the New Hampshire Commission of Native American Affairs. They are also Federal BOP Religious Advisors and founding members of the Indigenous New Hampshire Collaborative Collective as well as Affiliate Faculty members of the UNH Native American and Indigenous Studies Minor. Both serve on the Race & Equality in NH Advisory Panel and the Hanna Dustin (Unity Park N’Dakinna) Park Advisory Committee.
Denise also serves on the New Hampshire Commission on Native American Affairs, the DOJ Violence Against Women Act Steering Committee, and NH Public Health Association.