GLC at Lunch with Darlene Kascak "Quinnetukut: Our Homeland, Our History"

PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT IS NOW VIA ZOOM ONLY, NOT IN-PERSON

Darlene Kascak (Educational Outreach Ambassador, Institute for American Indian Studies in Washington, CT; Schaghticoke Tribal Nation)

Much of what we learn about Connecticut’s past comes from a colonized perspective that has almost entirely left out the voices of Indigenous people who have called this land home for over 12,000 years. How knowledge about the past is preserved and passed down in different cultures affects how history is perceived. In this presentation, led by Education Director Darlene Kascak, Schaghticoke Tribal Nation, participants will get a more complete and accurate view of the history of Connecticut that takes the perspectives of Native people into account.

Darlene Kascak is a member of the planning committee for the Gilder Lehrman Center’s Yale and Slavery Teaching Institute.