Stony Brook celebrated Native American Heritage Month throughout November with a variety of events and performances.

Perhaps most prominent of the Native American influencers at Stony Brook are Jay Levenson, an interlibrary loan clerk in the Access Services Department at University Libraries, and Timothy Long, a professor, conductor and pianist with the Department of Music.

 A display of Native American artifacts and artwork.

Jay Levenson organized a display of Native American artifacts and artwork in the Melville Library as part of the Native American Heritage Awareness program.

Stony Brook also welcomed Professor Paul Kelton, a leading scholar of indigenous North American and colonial American history, thanks to a grant by the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation, whose mission is to promote the study, preservation and celebration of Long Island history.

Native American Heritage Month closed with an open house educational seminar, food sampling and book signing in the Student Activities Center Ballroom A on November 29 from 1:00 to 2:30 pm.

The Faculty Student Association brought in Santa Fe, New Mexico, chef, author and Native foods historian Lois Ellen Frank, a member of the Kiowan nation, and Walter Whitewater, a Navajo chef who teaches with Frank at the Sante Fe School of Cooking, to feature Native American recipes and leave students, faculty and staff with a tasty reminder of what Long Island’s original settlers bring to the culinary table.

Read more: http://www.stonybrook.edu/happenings/community-outreach/stony-brook-celebrates-native-american-heritage/