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‘The Return’: New York City’s first for-Lenape, by-Lenape art exhibit opens in Brooklyn

Details By Jenna Kunze January 26, 2022

NEW YORK CITY—Curator, artist, and educator Joe Baker (Delaware Tribe of Indians) says his new exhibit, “Lenapehoking” (Lenape Land), at the Brooklyn Public Library’s branch in the Greenpoint neighborhood, upends museum hierarchies, in part simply by existing.

“There’s never been an exhibition to recognize Lenape people here in New York City,” Baker, a cofounder of the Lenape Center in Manhattan, told Native News Online during a walk-through of the exhibit before it opened Jan. 20. 

He said he had to knock on a lot of doors to get an exhibit up. “My goal in exhibiting this historic material is to present it—not only to the public, but to our own community—to bring this important work back into contemporary narratives,” he explained.

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The exhibit includes Baker’s own art: three handcrafted beaded bags, called bandolier bags, that are specifically worn by Lenape men on special occasions to identify individuals. It also displays two historic bags, one recently purchased by the Brooklyn Museum of Art and lent to the exhibition, and the other held by a private collector.

Because the bags are so prized by collectors, Baker said he never saw one in real life until he was completing a residency at the National Museum of the American Indian in Manhattan.

“The message is: the return,” Baker said of the exhibit. “The idea that this important element of Lenape men’s dress be revived and could be returned to our communities.”

Lenape people lived on homelands across the Northeast until they were pushed out to Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario by European settlers, beginning in the 17th century. 

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Gucci gets bashed by online critics after advertising a £2,200 equestrian-style sun visor – In Entertainment

Gucci has been mocked for horsing around by selling a sun visor with equine hair for £2,200.

It has been compared to Bondage Gear by one fashion buyer, and another compared it to a Spartan helmet by another. 

Gucci’s website lists: “Equestrian references dating back to 1950s are constantly revisited and used in unexpected ways.”

“The visor’s black leather harness recalls those worn in horse riding and is characterized by its visor.

“An impressive rendition of a horse’s mane completes this style.”

Gucci has been attacked by online critics after selling a sun visor with a horse hair mohican for £2,200

Gucci has been attacked by online critics after selling a sun visor with a horse hair mohican for £2,200

The headpiece features a visor for keeping the sun out of the wearer's eyes and an open harnes system that goes around the head The headpiece features a visor for keeping the sun out of the wearer's eyes and an open harnes system that goes around the head

This headpiece has a visor to keep the sun from the eyes of wearers and an open harnes system which wraps around the head.

One user thought the hat was more suited to appearing in San Francisco's annual BDSM carnival One user thought the hat was more suited to appearing in San Francisco's annual BDSM carnival

One user thought the hat was more suited to appearing in San Francisco’s annual BDSM carnival

The Visor with harness only blocks bright light from the eyes of its wearers and offers no protection against the sun’s rays. It’s also open at top. 

However, it does have an adjustable buckle and chin strap.



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Lenape Valley over Boonton – Boys basketball recap

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Michael Crispino scored 20 points in Lenape Valley’s 62-58 victory over Boonton in Boonton.

Dylan Pellinger had 12 points for Lenape Valley (7-5), which closed the game with a 22-12 fourth quarter surge. Troy Brennan added 10 points and Nate Sarnella chipped in with nine.

Charlie Hurd scored 13 points for Boonton (4-8). Ibrahim Fall had 11 points, while Madrit Asani and Peter Delaporte added 10 apiece.

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Mystery of Tecumseh’s burial piqued educator’s interest into Indigenous languages

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Educator Ian McCallum, who grew up listening to relatives converse in their native language of Munsee on Munsee-Delaware Nation, has finished the translation of a 1931 London Free Press article about the death and burial of Shawnee chief Tecumseh – and the mystery surrounding it – into that little-spoken language. Educator Ian McCallum, who grew up listening to relatives converse in their native language of Munsee on Munsee-Delaware Nation, has finished the translation of a 1931 London Free Press article about the death and burial of Shawnee chief Tecumseh – and the mystery surrounding it – into that little-spoken language. jpg, CA

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A long-time Southwestern Ontario mystery about a towering historical figure is at the heart of a new project designed to pique the interest of those learning to speak an endangered Indigenous language.

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Educator Ian McCallum, who grew up listening to relatives converse in their native language of Munsee on Munsee-Delaware Nation, has finished the translation of a 1931 London Free Press article about the death and burial of Shawnee chief Tecumseh – and the mystery surrounding it – into that little-spoken language.

“I did some digging and I thought this would be a really good story to translate,” said McCallum, who lives near Barrie. He’s one of about three or four people who speak fluent Munsee as a second language and he teaches about 50 beginners, he said.

“We were looking for community stories to translate into the Munsee language, and I started with my own family because COVID didn’t allow for a lot of communication with the elders.”



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Milford Woman Wins $50K At Mohegan Sun

MILFORD, CT – Since the launch of online casino gaming in Connecticut during fall 2021, Mohegan Digital has given away more than $100,000 in cash and prizes, including $75,000 to two lucky winners this week.

Just by signing up and creating a new account on the real money online casino app available through CT.MoheganSunCasino.com, Stacy of Milford, CT walked away with $50,000. Another winner, Kelly, from Danbury, CT, was awarded $25,000.

Special promotions and giveaways are still taking place for residents and visitors to Connecticut by simply signing up and registering an account at MoheganSunCasino.com or through the associated apps for iOS and Google Play.

Speaking to the excitement of randomly winning $50,000 at a big check moment at Mohegan Sun, Stacy said, “I really couldn’t believe it and asked repeatedly if this was a joke.

“We love Mohegan Sun and the team there is always so nice, especially the person who called to give me this amazing news!”

MoheganSunCasino.com will also have an exciting promo contest live at the 2022 Sun Wine & Food Festival (SWFF), taking place inside the Earth Expo & Convention Center at Mohegan Sun during the final week of January.

“The Temperature Rising Game Show,” located in Earth Expo during the Grand Tasting Preview taking place on Friday, January 28th (8:00pm – 10:00pm), and Grand Tasting (Noon – 5:00p.m.) on Saturday, January 29th, will randomly select two contestants chosen from those who have signed up and deposited at least $10 on MoheganSunCasino.com or its apps.

The contestants will then battle in a trivia contest against each other, family feud style! Answering five questions correctly in a row will crown a winner, of which up to $2,500 will be awarded.

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Nanticoke police arrest man on arson, assault charges

NANTICOKE — A Nanticoke man was arrested after he allegedly ignited papers on fire during a domestic disturbance inside his residence on West Green Street on Saturday.

Macarton Norman Pierre, 31, was arraigned by District Judge Joseph Spagnuolo in Plains Township on four counts of simple assault, two counts of arson and a single count of criminal mischief. He was jailed without bail at the Luzerne County Correctional Facility as Spagnuolo deemed him a danger to society and a flight risk.

Pierre was wanted by the county Sheriff’s Department when he was arrested Saturday.

According to the criminal complaint:

Police responded to the West Green Street residence for a domestic disturbance at about 11:38 a.m.

As officers encountered Pierre and a woman on the front porch, they noticed a smoky haze through the open front door.

The woman told police Pierre arrived home and began smashing items inside the residence. Officers noticed overturned furniture, broken doors and holes in walls, the complaint says.

Police in the complaint reported the woman claimed Pierre placed papers on a glass stove top and turned on the burners, igniting the papers and filling the residence up with smoke.

A roommate suffered a burn to her right hand when she attempted to extinguish the fire.

The woman claimed Pierre attempted to burn the house down with two adults and two children, 8 and 11, inside, the complaint says.

Court records say a judge’s warrant was issued for Pierre when he failed to appear Nov. 29 for a preliminary hearing on drunken driving charges that were filed by state police at Hazleton. He is also facing drug possession charges by…

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The Lenape diaspora, once on the brink of erasure, championed in New York exhibition

The Lenape culture, which flourished in the mid-1500s in areas that became New York and various other mid-Atlantic coastal states following European colonisation, has a complex and often misunderstood history. The original stewards of Manhattan, the Lenape are said to have sold the resource-rich island to Dutch colonists in 1626, and over the next three centuries were the victims of genocide and forced relocation, with the largest population of Lenape-associated tribes now inhabiting Oklahoma.

The cultural traditions of Lenape communities have been disquietingly understudied but are highlighted in a small exhibition titled Lenapehoking at the Brooklyn Public Library branch in Greenpoint (until 30 April) that is billed as the first-ever Lenape-curated exhibition in New York. The show and its adjacent programmes, which have been organised by the artist and curator Joe Baker—an enrolled member of the Delaware Tribe of Indians and the executive director of the Lenape Center, a non-profit organisation founded in 2009 to uplift the Lenape diaspora—aims to correct the perception of the Lenape as an extinct culture.

According to Baker, the project most importantly serves to upend hierarchical museum practices that have failed to address Lenape heritage in New York City. “Most major cities in the US have some recognition of the ancestral, original people who inhabited the place, but here in New York City there’s been almost total erasure,” he says. “Museums are just now being called upon to rethink their curatorial practice, to rethink their relationship with the communities around them and to advance dialogues and narratives, which can be challenging at times.”

The sparseness of the exhibition itself poignantly echoes the fact that the Lenape were among the Indigenous communities most afflicted by colonisation and forced removal. It features a small vitrine containing context writings, a strikingly well-preserved beaded bandolier bag from around 1850, tapestries,…

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