News and Events from 2010

Jul 2010: Thunderhorse Band Debut

For the past two years Joel "Lone Wolf" Rosendahl, ACQTC member of the Wolf Clan, has been working hard to develop his new band called "Thunderhorse". They have made their first demo recording, their debut song entitled "The Legend of Iron Thunderhorse."

After all the copyright business is taken care of, a copy of the demo will be mailed to the National Office. We hope to one day have a sound bite from it on our website.

Thunderhorse is scheduled to perform at a club in Guilford, CT, on Saturday, July 10, 2010, the first night of the Quinnipiac Summer Solstice Social.

Break a leg, Lone Wolf! We look forward to hearing the demo!

May 2010: Little Bear

Little Bear is pictured here from May 2010 sporting his new baby teeth. As grandson of Wolf-Walker, Quinnipiac War Chief, he is ready to tear up some buffalo burgers and Indian Tacos. Won't be long now, Little Bear!

Mar 2010: Little Thunder's First Birthday

The newest (and littliest) member of ACQTC's Thunder Clan, Rishi Paddaquasiz “Little Thunder” (youngest son of Red Raven) turned one year old and had his first birthday in March 2010.

Most children of indigenous peoples begin to learn our aboriginal ways around age two or three, but not in this case. Little Thunder, as the photo here shows has already decided to speed things up. Here he is at age one on his first birthday, and already he has taken a keen interest in the drum, which represents the heartbeat of our Earth Mother Metanokit.

Red Raven says he plays it several times a day and as we can see here he is happiest when he is playing a rhythm that comes right from his heart and soul. Go Little Thunder …

Coming Mar 2010: Quinnipiac/Long-Water-Land Spring Symposium

ACQTC has sent out e-mail flyers and snail mail invitations to a dozen regional historical societies, museums, and other Algonquian Tribal Group representatives of Connecticut. The agenda, time and place of the Quinnipiac/Long-Water-Land Spring Symposium will be part of a 3 days celebration welcoming Red Raven as the new ACQTC Headwoman-in-Training.

This symposium will address key issues relevant to the Quinnipiac, and the newest research of Iron Thunderhorse published in Volumes 5 and 6 of THE DAWNLANDER (ACQTC Literary Journal). This will be a Round-Table Symposium to share knowledge that is obscure and rare and confirms that the Quinnipiac continued to exist throughout Western CT, NY, and elsewhere throughout the 19th, 20th and now the 21st centuries with multiple sources of evidence.

Shalini Red-Raven Mahweeyeuh-Bhgarva will host and welcome all the guests to begin the event. It will take place at the Quinnipiac Dawnland Museum, Library and Archives on Saturday, March 20th, 2010, from 8 AM to 6 PM.

Jan 2010: Quinnipiac Quarterly Socials

ACQTC announces that starting in the Spring of 2010 it will sponsor, conduct and maintain quarterly socials to celebrate the four seasons. For 2010, these socials will be held on the following dates:

Each quarterly social will be celebrated with traditional feasting, long house observances and visits to sacred landmarks and graves.

Jan 2010: New Quinnipiac Headwoman Begins Training in 2010

On January 1st, 2010, Mrs. Ruth Duncan Mahweeyeuh-Thunderhorse, at age 75, begins to step down as the Quinnipiac Headwoman and will gradually pass along her traditional obligations to Iron Thunderhorse's daughter, Red Raven, while retaining the inherited role of Sunksquaw/Sachemau.

Shalini Squayo-Piressiwa (Red-Raven) Mahweeyeuh-Bhargava (daughter of Iron Thunderhorse and Little Owl/Ruth Thunderhorse) begins to take over the position of Quinnipiac Headwoman officially on July 1st, 2011. She will receive a number of hereditary traditional gifts from her Mother and Father as visual/symbolic emblems of her authority, which will be given to her as she becomes more expert in the knowledge of the Quinnipiac ceremonies and language.

For the full story, see Headwoman-in-Training.