Video to Direct Viewers to the Once As It Was DC Map

This 1.5 minute video gives a brief summary of what will be found on the interactive Once As It Was Map of DC.

Also available on youtube:

https://youtu.be/ui7G4-adD50

Garfield Park Native History Day, Aug 24!

There's a new Facebook page to help promote Garfield Park Native History Day:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/498983764237328/?ref=bookmarks

Here's the flyer to help spread the word -

Thanks for the Supportive Comments & 1590 Village Drawing!

This has been a great week when supportive comments about establishing a Native Village Marker on Capitol Hill have been sent by the following folk:

My continued thanks to the Staff at the Library of Congress, both for Reference help and excellent identification of important maps!!

Dr. Ruth Trocolli District Archaeologist, Washington, DC
Dr. Joe Watkins, Natioanal Park Service, American Indian Liaison Officer;Chief, Tribal Relations & American Cultures; and Supervisory Cultural Anthropologist

Elayne Silversmith (Diné), Librarian, Smithsonian Libraries, Vine Deloria, Jr. Library, Cultural Resources Center
Dr. GabrielleTayac, Member of the Piscataway Indian Nation and National Museum of the American Indian Historian 
Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton

Above: 1590 drawing of an Indian Village (DC Indians used huts as shown, not teepees as on local maps)
From: 
Lost arrows : the story of the Indians in the District of Columbia / adapted by Elizabeth W. Rounds from data furnished by Neil M. Judd ; edited by Cleveland Park Community Library Committee, Washington, D. C. 1948 DC Library call #: 970.4JUV 970.4