Mohican Histories and Futures: A Conversation with JoAnn Schedler

Presented by the American and Indigenous Studies Program, Bard College

October 7th, 2022

In advance of Indigenous Peoples Day 2022, join Mohican Veteran and retired Army Major JoAnn Schedler for an informal conversation with students, staff and faculty at Bard on unceded Mohican homeland on Mohican nationhood today, Mohican history in the Mahicantuck (Hudson Valley) and in Stockbridge, and Mohican political and military histories.

Jo Ann Schedler is an enrolled member of the Mohican Nation Stockbridge-Munsee Band born in 1946 on the Stockbridge-Munsee reservation in Wisconsin. She is a former member of the Stockbridge-Munsee Tribal Council. She is a direct descendent of Captain John Konkapot,  who was the sachem when the Stockbridge-Munsee tribe accepted a mission in what is now Stockbridge, MA. Schedler received a degree in Nursing (BSN) from Marquette University and Masters of Science in Management (MSM) from Cardinal Stretch in Milwaukee, WI. She is an Army veteran with over 20 years of service. She has a great passion for Mohican and Munsee tribal history, especially military and Civil War histories. She is the author of a chapter in the Official National Park Service Handbook, American Indians and the Civil War  entitled Wisconsin “American Indians in the Civil War.”