For you history buffs, First Native American Heritage Day and Henry Hudson

[Bobbieo]

This Friday, November 27th, marks the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's landing in New York and the first Native American Heritage Day (as established by President Obama earlier this year with the passing of The Native American Heritage Act of 2009).

On Friday morning a public ceremony – “Healing Turtle Island” (#turtleisland) – will be held by The Collegiate Church of New York, the oldest surviving institution of the Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam, and the Lenape, the Native Americans who met the Dutch settlers arriving here in the wake of Henry Hudson’s discovery of Manhattan.