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Mohicans & Early Native Americans at the Van Alen Property
in Columbia County

Lesson Plan - Mohican Culture
Lesson Plan - Mohican Archaeology

Fourth Grade  Program 

Mohicans
of  Columbia County
at the Van Alen Property 


COVID-19 is not our geographic region's first brush with an illness of epidemic proportions.

We now know that the "conquest" by Christopher Columbus (1492) of native people was not due to guns nor weapons, rather to the fact that Columbus and his crew of invaders brought disease pathogens--carried invisibly--to indigenous communities of the Americas. These diseases had evolved over hundreds of years across the ocean in Europe--to which Europeans had become immune, but to which native populations of the 'New World' had no resistance or immunity .

Mohicans lived communally; women had equal rights as men, there was no slavery, all group members were cared for equally. Village or group elders managed activities of daily life, restricting overuse of resources so as to preserve them for the next seven generations.

Records show the Van Alens purchased this land from the Mohicans in 1666, while the discovery of a small Native American campsite on the property points to occupation of the land for at least 4,000 years prior to this transaction.

Archaeology at Van Alen
Archaeology at Van Alen - Exhibition
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Contact Educator@cchsny.org for scheduling and information about future 'Day of History' Field Trips and transportation reimbursement.

Curriculum: 4th Grade
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  • Social Studies Standard 1
  • The Arts Standards 3&4
  • ELA Standards 1&3
  • MST Standard 5

Mohicans in Columbia County
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The Columbia County Historical Society is supported in part by the County of Columbia, New York
with the support of Matt Murell, Chairman of the Board at the Columbia County Board of Supervisors.
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State Education Department, The University of the State of New York
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PO Box 311, 5 Albany Avenue,  Kinderhook, NY 12106
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