Traditional Earth Skills / Lenape education

School Assemblies & Summer Camps

The discussion starts with the plants and animals of NJ, along with a discussion of Ice Age times, where our story begins. This includes museum-quality artifacts of numerous Ice Age animals, including Woolly Mammoth, Short Faced Bear, Megalodon, touch real animal pelts and more... After which we discuss (with many life-sized handmade displays) food, clothing, shelter, tools... of the Lenape, and describe how these items were made. There is ample Q & A time.

We also provide a demonstration of fire by friction (no fires made in the school, only a puff of smoke). The students are all offered an opportunity to try these wilderness skills firsthand during a workshop. The program runs 45-90 minutes, depending on your school's financial and scheduling availability. The assembly is presented in full period-correct 1600s buckskin regalia.
Summer camp presentations & wilderness skills workshops are available June, July & August.