Brothertown Elder Interview Workshop (Zoom), Eeyamquittoowauconnuck Day 2025

Come together as our Tribal family for an important event on Zoom on November 7.

For Eeyamquittoowauconnuck (Brothertown) Day, 2025, Brothertown Indian Nation and Calumet and Cross Heritage Society are proud to announce that Dr. Courtney Gerzetich, Brothertown’s Tribal Historic Preservation Officer (THPO) and a member of the Calumet and Cross Board, will be offering a presentation on interviewing tribal elders. 

The workshop will begin at 6 pm CT/7 pm ET/5 pm MT/4 pm PT on November 7th and will cover equipment set-up, interview questions, and tips for preserving and sharing your interviews.

For additional information you can see more details of the presentation here….

Take advantage of the upcoming holiday season to sit down with your family members and ask them to share their memories with you. Everyone’s stories are essential, and we can all contribute to the collection and preservation of our tribal history by speaking with and interviewing our relatives and, with their permission, sharing a copy for the tribe’s archives.

How to attend: Zoom—link with sign-on instructions and passcode are available by contacting CalumetAndCross@gmail.com or webmaster@brothertownindians.org

Relevance to our Tribe: our history and shared memories are essential to our heritage.  Going back to the 1980s, when this project first began, it was a vital key to our shared Tribal knowledge of our family stories and memories. This includes both our struggles and our celebrations, which can’t be lost to our future generations.

What is Eeyamquittoowauconnuck (Brothertown) Day?

This day, by proclamation by the Brothertown Tribal Council, we celebrate not only our Tribal heritage, but the decades of trials that our Ancestors endured (from New England, to New York, Indiana, and on to Wisconsin, Minnesota, Kansas, etc.), and still endure to this day.

It is a testament that we, as a tribal family, “are still here!  240 years later (Nov 7, 1785), following these words “We now proceeded to form into a Body Politick -We named our town by the name of Brotherton, in Indian—Eeyamquittoowauconnuck” (Occom 1785)

All Brothertown, each of whom proudly recognizes themselves as the “Brothertown Indian Nation”, with both our Tribal friends and our Tribal cousins, come together to celebrate Community, with one voice—as a single tribe. Whether in Fond du Lac, greater Wisconsin, Minnesota, the Pacific Northwest, and a multitude of other locations – we are Brothertown and stand proudly together.