Presenter points to active Indigenous archaeological site on private land in Peru
Summary
At a Champlain Memorial Library talk, the CCHA director said an archaeological site on their Peru property shows Mohawk presence and that SUNY Plattsburgh conducts fieldwork there each summer.
The director of the Clinton County Historical Association highlighted Indigenous presence in the county and described an archaeological site on their private property in Peru that they said reveals Mohawk occupation. The presenter said SUNY Plattsburgh “does some work there every summer.”
The speaker framed that site as evidence of the broader Haudenosaunee Confederacy’s historical presence across the region and said many artifacts in the local collection lack precise archaeological context until experts examine sites. The presentation noted the county’s Indigenous material is in the CCHA collection but that the association lacks in-house specialists to fully identify some artifacts.
Quote from the presentation: “I have a piece of property in Peru, and it's probably the 1 of the most the only active archaeological digs that in the county today that shows where, the the Mohawks were, they were on my property.”
The presenter said the association hopes that specialists and local Indigenous communities will be able to assist in identifying and interpreting items in the future, and encouraged collaboration with university archaeologists.
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