Learn about the myths and cultures of the Lenape Tribe during this in-person program taking place Tuesday, November 19 from 1:00 to 2:00 pm at the Clara Barton Branch.

 

With over two decades of experience working in the museum field, Douglas T. Aumack will present the oral histories of the Lenape, the creation myths, and other lore that embody the Lenape culture. This program focuses on life through the Lenape’s eyes and will provide insight into why the Lenape left New Jersey and what happened when Western Europeans arrived in the Mid-Atlantic colonies. Participants will also have an opportunity to handle gourd bowls along with hunting bags and seed bags made out of deer hide. 

 

Aumack was the curator and deputy director for the Naval Air Station Wildwood Aviation Museum and education coordinator for the USS Constellation Museum in Baltimore. He has spent most of his career working as the resource interpretive specialist for the Middlesex County Division of History and Historic Preservation and has researched and presented papers at the New Jersey History Forum and the New Jersey Council for Social Studies on such subjects as child labor, patent medicine, and Indigenous people. Additionally, he was the executive producer of “Middlesex County History,” a podcast series that focused on projects/programs of the Arts Institute of Middlesex County, including a season specific to the archaeology of Raritan Landing, an 18th-century community buried under a Middlesex County Park.