PCT Community News and Information

10/18/2026

📣 Attention Enrolled Tribal Citizens!

Join us on Zoom with Native American Lifelines to learn about services and benefits available to tribal citizens, how to access them, and plans for our upcoming vaccination clinic!

We’ll discuss:
✅ Available services and support
✅ Eligibility requirements and how to access benefits
✅ Upcoming vaccination clinic information

Bring your questions and learn about resources that may benefit you and your family!

📅 Wednesday, October 21, 2026
🕢 7:30–8:30 p.m. Eastern Time
Participants must be enrolled tribal citizens.

Join Zoom:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89917434154?pwd=QwbvHtUaJKpvkfpcOdwNktxkftat6c.1

Meeting ID: 899 1743 4154
Passcode: 340951

Join by phone: +1 301-715-8592
Enter the meeting ID and passcode when prompted.

Please share with other enrolled tribal citizens, especially elders who may benefit from these services. We look forward to seeing you!

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10/18/2026

Were you able to come out? We had fun! Lots of vendors, food and dancing!And let’s not forget the fry bread!! If you missed this event, there’s more coming! 😊🙌🏼🪶🪶

Upcoming Events as we approach Native American Heritage Month:

10/24- Indigenous Arts & Culture Fest @ Piscataway Park

11/14- Historic St. Mary’s City’s new Visitor Center will be open to the public

11/19- American Indian Heritage Day event at Baltimore American Indian Center. Event info still pending.

11/21- Baltimore American Indian Center

10/14/2026

Another upcoming event:

10/12/2026

Happy Indigenous People’s Day!!

10/06/2026

Upcoming Events as we approach Native American Heritage Month:

10/17- American Indian Festival

10/24- Indigenous Arts & Culture Fest @ Piscataway Park

11/14- Historic St. Mary’s City’s new Visitor Center will be open to the public

11/19- American Indian Heritage Day event at Baltimore American Indian Center. Event info still pending.

11/21- Baltimore American Indian Center

09/09/2026

What do you know about the Liberty Tree? Chairman Francis Gray ensured that the Piscataway Conoy tribe were a part of history this day! Read below!

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/19WJ58stfn/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Maryland is the only original colony that saved its Liberty Tree.

In the years before the Revolution, people gathered under Liberty Trees to organize — to argue over rights, self-government, and whether to break from England. Maryland's stood in Annapolis, chosen by its citizens in 1775, and survived the entire Revolutionary era. When a hurricane finally brought it down in 1999, Maryland was the only one of the thirteen original colonies that had already banked its DNA — preserving exact replicas so the tree could live on.

This month, one of those saplings — grown from the original tree's DNA — took root in Southern Maryland. We gathered at Piscataway Park in Prince George's County to plant it, overlooking the Potomac River and Mount Vernon, on a landscape with deep ties to the Piscataway people and generations of Maryland history.

The planting brought together the Tribal Chair of the Piscataway Conoy (Chairman Francis Gray), the Chief of the Piscataway Indian Nation (Chief Mark Tayac); Maryland Delegate Jamila Woods; NPS Superintendent Serena Bellew, David Armenti of the Maryland Center for History and Culture, Roderick Lewis from Senator Van Hollen’s office, Anjela Barnes of the Accokeek Foundation; Meagan Baco of the Anacostia Trails Heritage Area; and our Executive Director, Lucille Walker.

It's one of 24 planted across the state this year, marking America's 250th. The trees are new. The idea behind them — show up, take part — is as old as the Revolution.

Learn more about the Maryland Liberty Tree Project - link in comments.

08/28/2026

Once again, our Chairman, Francis Gray, is busy keeping our tribe in the forefront! I cannot wait for this to be released. Follow them to stay connected.

https://www.facebook.com/share/19SM2pyLSG/?mibextid=wwXIfr

The Long Table is a documentary we're producing about the people and places that make this region what it is. (If you saw our post about filming at Historic Sotterley earlier this month, this is that project.)

For the film, we recently had the honor of sitting down with Francis Gray, Tribal Chairman of the Piscataway Conoy Tribe at Mallows Bay-Potomac River National Marine Sanctuary

His story has stayed with us for days.

Chairman Gray spoke about the generations who kept Piscataway culture and identity alive, even through the most difficult times. As Chairman Gray stated: "We have always been here."

It's a story of continuity and resilience — of a culture that is very much alive today.
More to come as The Long Table takes shape.

Photo courtesy of Lena McBean, Fog Moving Pictures Music Fog

08/15/2026

Opening of the gate @ 10 am will be a little delayed this morning if you plan to volunteer to cut grass. John Milton Swann Jr will be there shortly! Thank you to the volunteers!

08/13/2026

POSTPONE DUE TO WEATHER!!!
STAY TUNED FOR A NEW DATE

GOOD EVENING TO ALL OF OUR VOLUNTEER STAFF & GRASS CUTTERS!!!

In celebration of ALL who supported our tribe by volunteering on the day(s) of and/or who cut grass in preparation of our June POW WOW… we will be honoring you with a pot luck!!! Please SAVE the DATE!!

THANK YOU!!!

See below!!! More info coming!!!

08/11/2026