Lyceum: The First Adirondackers

New archaeological and paleoecological research helps to confirm what Indigenous cultural knowledge has held all along, that people have lived in the Adirondack uplands since time immemorial. The First Adirondackers, a multicultural collaboration between artist David Kanietakeron Fadden and scientist Curt Stager, challenges the false claim of absence with evidence of Indigenous presence on the land from the end of the last ice age to the present day which demonstrates that the human story in the Adirondacks is, quite literally, “older than the trees.”

The First Adirondackers: 12,000 Years of Indigenous Peoples in the Adirondack Uplands will be on sale at the Lyceum.