HUDSON, N.Y. (NEWS10) — Metropolis of Hudson Mayor’s Workplace presents a have a good time of Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2022 with Native musician, storyteller, artist and ceremonial area holder Shawn Stevens. The free celebration will happen on Indigenous Peoples’ Day, October 10, from 5 p.m. to six:30 p.m., at Henry Hudson Riverfront Park.

Shawn Stevens, also referred to as Crimson Eagle, is a tribal member of the Stockbridge-Munsee band of Mohican Indians, whose ancestral homelands cowl the world now referred to as the Berkshires and Hudson River Valley. Stevens is a tradition and language helper, storyteller, artist, craftsman, Indigenous drugs practitioner, ceremonial area holder, and musician, specializing in conventional Native American drums, singing, dance, and flute. He’s an ordained minister of the Common Church of Mild and a licensed facilitator of White Bison’s Mending Damaged Hearts.

This celebration is the primary of an upcoming sequence of occasions organized by the Mayor’s workplace in collaboration with Indigenous historian and decolonial training guide Heather Breugl that can middle on the Native historical past and prescence of the area throughout Native American Heritage Month in November. These occasions observe the unanimous resolutions of the Metropolis of Hudson’s Frequent Council to designate the second Monday in October as Indigenous Peoples’ Day, and Might 5 because the Nationwide Day of Consciousness for Lacking and Murdered Indigenous Ladies and Women within the Metropolis of Hudson.