Indigenous Peoples and Languages in the Cayuga Lake Region

Event details Date: Thursday, October 15, 2026 Time: 6:30 PM Location: Tompkins County Public Library - BorgWarner Community Room - 101 E Green St, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA Type: Lecture / Workshop Department: Linguistics Contact: Heather Russell | hlm2@cornell.edu | 607-255-3384 About this event Kurt Jordan, Professor of Anthropology and American Indian and Indigenous Studies, Cornell University, will speak on "Indigenous Peoples and Languages in the Cayuga Lake Region". Community lecture, part of the Language, memory, future: Celebrating 250 years of language in our region event series. This talk provides an overview of the linguistic and cultural history of the Indigenous peoples of the Cayuga Lake region, ranging from the end of the last Ice Age to the present. The information presented is drawn from scholarly study of archaeology, history, and linguistics; current events research; and perspectives from Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫˀ (Cayuga) communities. Kurt Jordan is Professor of Anthropology and American Indian and Indigenous Studies at Cornell University. His publications include The Gayogo̱hó:nǫʔ People in the Cayuga Lake Region: A Brief History (Tompkins Historical Commission, 2022) and The Seneca Restoration, 1715-1754: An Iroquois Local Political Economy (University Press of Florida, 2008). ASL/English interpretation will be provided. Official event details: https://events.cornell.edu/event/language-memory-future-community-lecture1