Indigenous Heritage Day @ Historic St. Mary's City

Visit Historic St. Mary's City to celebrate and honor the lifeways of ingenious peoples. Learn skills, try crafts, and watch demonstrations of hide tanning, pottery, and cooking to gain a new appreciation for the people who called this land home before Maryland was founded, and the culture that still exists today.

Enjoy a performance by Mark Tayac and the Piscataway Nation Singers & Dancers at 1pm. From Tayac Territory (Port Tobacco, MD), Mark Tayac travels with the Piscataway Nation Singers & Dancers presenting a colorful, educational, and entertaining pow-wow-style event featuring American Indian Dance, Drum & Song that tells of American Indian history, culture, and traditions.

Drew Shuptar-Rayvis, an Algonkian living historian of the 17th and 18th century of the mid-Atlantic, will be at the event with his program “Eight Coats, Seven Shirts, Fifteen Fathom Wampum: Early Colonial Settlement and the First Deeds.”