Siewers, Rev Dr Paul, Department of English, Bucknell University, 1 Dent Drive, Lewisburg, PA, 17837, asiewers@bxk001.
Stories of the Susquehanna Valley is an ongoing student-faculty project at Bucknell, which has joined with the President’s Sustainability Council and Athletic and Facilities Departments to plan a Native American reflection space at the campus in the Susquehanna watershed, as the first pilot project of the Bucknell Greenway. The plan, developed with help from design students in Bucknell’s College of Management and journalism students in the College of Arts and Sciences, will involve gathering the Seventh-Generation Sculpture blessed by Haudenosaunee leaders to a new location adjacent to the Tree of Peace given to Bucknell by the Haudenosaunee. The area will feature also new historical markers commemorating the Tree of Peace and Seventh-Generation Sculpture, early Native American leaders in the region (Chief Shikellamy and Madame Montour), and Haudenosaunee elder and long-time Bucknell coach Sid Jamieson, who inspired the project. Students will also develop online interpretive materials for the site. The story of the project will briefly be told at the presentation, and its significance. The outdoor location at Bucknell’s campus, located adjoining to the North Branch of the Susquehanna near the Susquehanna Confluence, and along the Capt. John Smith Chesapeake Bay National Historic Corridor and Water Trail, will provide an opportunity both for the Bucknell and larger community to reflect on Native American history and continued presence at the university and in the region.
history, culture, landscape art, Native American