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North Fork Chapter Meeting -- Fri. Jan. 20, 7:00 pm
Location: Jefferson County History Center, 172-176 Main Street in Brookville, Pa. Parking is available at the rear of the building and people attending the meeting should use the rear ramp to enter.
Program:  Dave Sorg will present “Our Northern Neighbors, the Erie, Wenro and Kahkwas". New York State west of the Genesee River, as well as the northern tier counties of Pennsylvania, were inhabited at the time of European contact by a number of tribes about which little is known.  There were 3 or 4 villages of the Neutral confederacy (a southern Ontario confederacy of tribes)east of the Niagra river, as well as the Erie. The Wenro were a trading tribe who joined the Huron in 1638. There is no known archaeological site assigned to them and their pre-1638 homeland is controversial. The Kahkwas were a tribe based near present Hamburg, NY. Whether they were part of the Neutral or Erie or were independent is also controversial. The famous Erie tribe (or confederacy?) also has many controversies associated with it. They were always known as the "Cat Nation", but what was the cat? A recent theory proposes that the Erie fled to the south to appear in history as the Westo tribe until they ultimately joined the Seneca in 1681.  The talk will discuss the various unknowns (and knowns!) associated with these groups.  For further information contact Ken Burkett at (814) 849-0077 or email kburkett-jchc@windstream.net. 

Allegheny Chapter Meeting  -- Tue. Feb. 7, 7:30 pm
Location: Kresge Theater, Grace Library Building, Carlow College, 3333 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 (Oakland).
Program: To be announced.

Ohio Valley Chapter Meeting -- Wed. Jan. 11, 7:00 pm
Location: The Butler Area Public Library, 218 N. McKean Street, Butler, PA.
Program: This is our annual Video Night and start time is 7 p.m.  The room is open to us at 6 p.m. so if people want to gather earlier to chat and catch up with everyone feel free to arrive early.  Our video this year will be History Traced by Rt. 29. As Route 29 was being rebuilt along the Delaware River in Trenton, New Jersey, in the late 1990s, archaeologists worked ahead of and during the construction, discovering many important sites and artifacts reflecting nearly 10,000 years of human activity. For more information contact Amanda Valko at  AVALKO@mbakercorp.com or phone durnig the day 724-495-4026.

Westmoreland Chapter Meeting -- Wed. Jan. 18, 7:00 pm
Location: the Unity Township Municipal Building located about 0.2 miles north of route 30 at the Beatty crossroads, on Beatty Co. Road. Look for the Kawasaki dealership at the crossroads. The intersection is 2.4 miles west of Latrobe, and seven miles east of Greensburg on U.S. Route 30.
Program: To be announced