:: UPCOMING EVENTS ::
JANUARY 2008
Winter Animal Tracks and Trails Intensive [Adult]
1/05 (Sat) | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | $80
Led by Ndakinna Education Center Director James Bruchac, co-author Scats & Tracks Of The Norheast, participants in this workshop will learn basic to advanced winter track and trail indentification. Along with an afternoon tracking fieldtrip into the surrounding preserve participants will learn how to both measure and collect any tracks we they may find.
Winter Shelter and Firemaking Workshops [Adult]
1/27 (Sun)
Shelter workshop 10:00 am to 1:00 pm $40
Firemaking workshop 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm $40 | ($70 for both workshops)
During Shelter making workshop participants will learn to make key snow and evergreen based survival shelters. Firmaking workshop consisting of how to both gather proper fire making materials in winter as well as how to start fires with various spark and flame based methods. Hands-on experience that could truly save your life.
FEBRUARY 2008
Backwoods Winter Survival and Snowshoe Trek (Overnight) [Adult]
2/9 (Sat) | 10:00 am Sat to 12:00 pm Sun | SWITCHED TO ONE-DAY 2/17Winter Concert featuring John Kirk & Trish Miller
2/9 (Sat) | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | $7
Backwoods Winter Survival and Snowshoe Trek [Adult]
2/17 (Sun) | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm Sun | $65 During one-day course participants will not only learn a host of key survival skills . Set in the foothills of the Adirondacks skills learned will include basic map & compass, natural navigation, natural insulation, basic survival foods, fire by spark and flame, survival shelter construction, rescue signaling and more. Led by Ndakinna Director James Bruchac this course is guaranteed to increase anyone’s confidence in the wild. Certificate of participation included.Led by Ndakinna Education Center Director James Bruchac.
Winter Wilderness Skills & Storytelling Day Camp (Ages 6 to 8)
2/18-19 (Monday-Tuesday) | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | $100 Two days of outdoor winter fun including animal tracking shelter making, Native American games & more. Also included will be plenty of indoor activities from Native American stories shared by James Bruchac to various craft projects. Dress for the outdoors and bring a bag lunch.
Winter Wilderness Adventure Camp & Snowshoe Trek (Ages 9 to 13)
2/18-20 (Monday-Wednesday) | 10:00 am to 4:00 pm | $150 During this three day adventure participants will learn such wilderness skills as animal tracking, winter shelters, wilderness firemaking and more. Also included will be a full-day snowshoe trek where participants will have a chance to test their new found wilderness skills in a true wilderness setting. Indoor “warm-up” activities will include Native stories provided by James Bruchac as well as one or more of Ivan Erchak’s “tales” .Dress for the outdoors and bring a bag lunch.
MARCH 2008
Ways of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) POSTPONED DUE TO FLOODING TBA
presented by Kay Olan Ionataiewas (Wolf Clan Mohawk)
3/8 (Sat) | 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm | $10
Recovering and Reclaiming Algonkian Histories 3/22 (Sat) | 7:30 pm | Lisa Brooks, Marge Bruchac, and Evan Pritchard The Ndakinna Education Center will host a panel discussion with three Algonkian Indian scholars as part of the the Continuing Histories, Native American Views of Northeastern Native History lecture series funded by the New York State Council for the Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. These three scholars are noted for innovative writings that challenge colonial representations and contribute to the process of recovering and reclaiming Algonkian Indian histories, seeing the past through Native eyes.Evan Pritchard, a descendant of the Acadian Miâckmaq of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, teaches Native American History and Culture at Pace University and Marist College.Dr. Lisa Brooks (Abenaki) is an Assistant Professor of History and Literature and of Folklore and Mythology at Harvard University.Dr. Margaret (Marge) Bruchac (Abenaki) is a museum consultant and performer with a doctorate in Anthropology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. $10 per person.
APRIL 2008
Native American Games Day (Two groups: Ages 6-8 & 9-13)
4/16 (Wed) | 9:00 am to 4:00 pm | $50
Animal Tracking Basics w/ James Bruchac (Two groups: Ages 6-8 & 9-13)
4/17 (Thu) | 9:00 am to 4:00 pm | $50 [Sign up for both days for $90]
Lost in the Woods! Wilderness Survival Basics [Adult]
Led by Ndakinna Education Center Director James Bruchac
4/26 (Sat) | 9:00 am to 4:00 pm | $75
MAY 2008
Spring Tracks & Scats Workshop [Adult]
Led by Ndakinna Education Center Director James Bruchac
5/10 (Sat) | 9:00 am to 4:00 pm | $75
JUNE 2008
Wild Edibles & Medicinal Plants Workshop [Adult]
Led by Jan Longboat | TBA | 9:00 am – 5:00 pm | $80
Boy’s Night Out: Father & Son Wilderness Overnight [Ages 9 and up]
6/14-15 (Sat-Sun) | 10:00 am Sat to 12:00 pm Sun
$150 for father and son ($50 each additional child)
2008 ( 2009 ) Grizzly and Wolf Tracking Expedition at Yellowstone Park [Adult]
w/ Dr. James Halfpenny & Ndakinna Director James Bruchac – Moved to Summer 2009
| $1275
JULY 2008
Wilderness Navigation Essentials [Adult]
7/5 (Sat) | 9:00 am – 4:00 pm | $75
Primitive Firemaking Workshop: Hand Drill [Adult]
7/13 (Sun) | 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm | $35
Kid’s Wilderness Skills & Storytelling Camp (Ages 6-8)
Session 1: 7/14 – 7/16 (Mon-Wed) – $165 (9:00 am to 4:00 pm)
Session 2: 7/21 – 7/23 (Mon-Wed) – $165 ($280 for any two sessions)
Session 3: 8/20 – 8/22 (Wed-Fri) – $165 ($450 for all three sessions)
Wilderness Adventure Day Camp (Ages 9-13)
Session 1: 7/14 – 7/18 (Monday-Friday) – $290 (9:00 am to 4:00 pm)
Session 2: 7/21 – 7/25 (Monday-Friday) – $290 ($530 for both sessions)
AUGUST 2008
Wilderness First Aid Course (SOLO Certified) [Adult]
Led by Adirondack Wilderness Medicine Director Clark Hayward
TBA | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm | $150
Woodland Lifeways Camp (Ages 9-13)
Only Session: 8/6 – 8/8 (Wed-Fri) | $165
Adirondack Pathfinders w/ Jim Bruchac (Ages 12-16)
All-week offsite canoeing and basic to advanced wilderness training
Only Session: 8/11 – 8/15 (Mon-Fri) | $475
Adventures in Animal Tracking w/ Jim Bruchac (Ages 9-13)
Only Session: 8/18 – 8/19 (Mon-Tue) | $110
Ivan Erchak’s Bushcraft Adventure (Ages 10-12)
with overnight on Friday | Only Session: 8/20 – 8/22 (Wed-Fri) | $180
Kid’s Wilderness Skills & Storytelling Camp (Ages 6-8)
Session 3: 8/20 – 8/22 (Wed-Fri) | $165