Did you know that humans arrived in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York as early as the end of the last Ice Age, and some of their descendants are still here? Researchers and Indigenous community members are using sediment samples and artifacts discovered on high ground in the Adirondacks to help tell the story of the earliest inhabitants in the region.
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The First Adirondackers | Curiously Adirondack
Grades 6-12
Follow along as scientists make eye-opening discoveries about pre-colonial Indigenous populations in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York. Working diligently to challenge the idea that Indigenous people are relative newcomers to the Adirondacks, these researchers use sediment cores from lakes in the region and artifacts found on high ground to reveal a different timeline. Their discoveries support what John Fadden and his family, of the Six Nations Indian Museum in Onchiota, New York, have been telling those who would listen for years: that humans arrived in the Adirondacks at the end of the last Ice Age, and some of their descendants are still here.
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