Category: Delaware Tribe

A somber ceremony was held Friday afternoon at the Delaware Tribal Complex to remember and honor Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW), and Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons (MMIP).

 

About 40 people attended the event, wearing red — some with a red handprint painted over their mouths — a symbol to remember Native American voices who have been silenced.

 

 

Just before an honor walk around the pond, some who gathered held pictures of missing or murdered relatives and friends. They told the crowd about  their honored person, with many tears shed.

 

The Delaware Tribe offers several resources for families that experience domestic violence, including protection order services that the tribe will offer to anyone — Native and Non-Native included.

 

Below is a photo gallery from Friday’s event.

 

Photo by Nathan Thompson

Photo by Nathan Thompson

Photo by Nathan Thompson

Photo by Nathan Thompson

Photo by Nathan Thompson

Photo by Nathan Thompson

Photo by Nathan Thompson

Photo by Nathan Thompson

Photo by Nathan Thompson

Photo by Nathan Thompson

Photo by Nathan Thompson

Photo by Nathan Thompson

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May 1—ANDERSON — As he strolled slowly around a set of tables set up in a large square, Joe Cronk stopped occasionally and greeted each of his students with a simple question, spoken in the Lenape language.

Kulamalsi hàch?

How are you? The replies came in halting voices.

Osòmi. Fine.

That was one choice the students in Cronk’s Lenape Lessons class could use to let their teacher know how their day was going. The exercise was a preamble to the day’s lesson, which included basic Lenape vocabulary and a discussion on clothing and accessories used by the Lenape, an Algonquin tribe which populated the area that is present-day Anderson.

“The Lenape language is a dying language,” Cronk told the 15 students. “No one speaks it natively anymore.”

The six-week course is being offered to fourth graders at Tenth Street Elementary School as part of Anderson Community Schools’ budding partnership with the Delaware Tribe of Indians. Following the district’s decision to discontinue the high school basketball pregame routine involving the school’s Indian mascot and maiden, conversations with Chief Brad KillsCrow of the Delaware Tribe became centered on ways the district could create opportunities to provide updated material for course work in classes throughout the district.

Cronk’s class, which is scheduled to meet each Wednesday through mid-May, is the first product of those efforts.

“Part of our agreement with the Delaware Tribe, when we were talking about mascots and community history, was that we would promote authentic history of the Anderson area,” Cronk said after the class was dismissed. “It’s important that they learn what the authentic history is.”

Cronk said he began studying material for the course about a year ago. He said that standards put forth by the Indiana Department of Education mandate course work on the state’s history starting in fourth grade. The Lenape Lessons course, he noted,…

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Lillie-Beth Brinkman

Saturday night’s fashion show at First Americans Museum will feature Native American designers and traditional and contemporary designs as it celebrates Indigenous fashion.

The Lenape Fashion Summit’s Teton Trade Cloth is designed to reflect the beauty and culture of Native America and emphasize the importance of preserving and promoting Native American culture and traditions, a news release noted. It begins at 7:30 p.m.

The Teton Trade Cloth store is owned by the Delaware Tribe of Indians; the tribal headquarters are in Bartlesville. Its Lenape Fashion Summit has become a platform for showcasing the rich culture and diversity of Native American fashion, the release stated.

Featured designers at the event include Designs by Della; Michelle Luna – Bitterwater for Redhouse; Sheel Designs; Marian Mike – Breezy Designs; Queena Ribbon Designs; Kathleen Tom Garcia; JG Indie; Stitched by Millie; Native Springflower Creations; Bonnie Woodie; and Penny Singer. Accessory designers include Shude Victors – Big Smoke Maker Designs; Shaydee Snow Pretends Eagle – S.N.O. Inc.; and Amanda Wilson – Weryackwe Tie Co.

Learn more at store.famok.org. The entire fashion summit includes the Teton Artist Market from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, where the designers will feature their works for sale at booths. The museum also is offering a beginning ribbon skirt class from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday and an advanced ribbon skirt class from 2 to 4 p.m. that afternoon.

Run for cancer research

The 14th annual Putnam City Cancer Classic run/walk will be Saturday, with proceeds benefiting cancer research at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation.

Since the Cancer Fund Drive began in 1975, Putnam City School District students, parents and teachers have raised nearly $4 million…

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The Mennonite Heritage Center in Harleysville, Pa., welcomed the Lenape (Delaware) tribe of Bartlesville, Okla., on April 12. After a potluck supper with local Mennonites, Chief Brad KillsCrow, tribal elder John Thomas, and tribal historic preservation officer Susan Bachor presented their request: land to bury their ancestors.

Since 1990, the Native American Graves and Protection and Repatriation Act has required that museums and universities return Indigenous human remains and funerary items after consulting with descendants and tribal organizations. As Indigenous groups receive the bones of their ancestors, however, some tribes face the next question: where to bury them.

Mennonites arrived in southeastern Pennsylvania in 1683 and now live on the Lenape ancestral homeland, which encompasses greater Philadelphia, New Jersey and parts of New York.

“We have no presence in our homeland,” KillsCrow said. “How do we put our ancestors back in the ground?”

The Lenape have already worked with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to bury about 200 ancestors at Pennsbury Manor, William Penn’s country estate in Morrisville, in 2022. But thousands still need burial space.

Addressing the crowd of 120 gathered in the Mennonite Heritage Center barn, KillsCrow said, “Our ancestors helped you. Your ancestors helped us. I humbly ask if there is anything you can do.” He suggested a few acres, preferably an open meadow in a remote location. The Lenape would like to bury their ancestors with traditional ceremonies.

The Lenape had considered burying their ancestors in Oklahoma, KillsCrow said, but tribal elders pointed out these ancestors never lived in Oklahoma. The Lenape settled there in the 1860s after gradual displacement from Pennsylvania by European expansion and then forced removal by the U.S. government. The Lenape want to honor their ancestors, whose bones have been kept in museums and other institutions, by bringing…

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Pennsbury commissioned Young to create “nkwiluntàmën: I long for it; I am lonesome for it (such as the sound of a drum).” The title is a word in the original language of the Lenape people, pronounced KWEE-loo-NOMEN, and its approximate translation into English.

Young, based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is a descendant of the Lenape people on his father’s side (his mother is Pawnee).

“Now we’re called the Delaware tribe of indians,” he said. “My tribe.” Indigenous artist Nathan Young is a member of the Delaware tribe of Indians. He returned to his ancestral homeland to create an immersive sound installation on the grounds of Pennsbury Manor, colonial estate of William Penn. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

Young installed speakers on several high-backed garden benches around the main house of the Pennsbury estate, each playing back music created for this piece by several composers. There are also large signs painted white, black, yellow, and red, that guide the visitor on a poetic journey.

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“Follow me, walk the path. I have a drum,” Young wrote. “Where is the drum hide? I long for it. I’m lonesome for it. There is a trail ahead. Do you see it? I’m blind.”

Because the Delaware/Lenape language is considered dead — there is no longer anyone alive for whom it is their first language — Young relies on language databases to find out how his forebears would describe certain things.

Out of respect for his ancestors, and out…

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KU First Nations Student Association’s powwow and festival to bring full day of celebration, ceremony – The Lawrence Times
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Staff Writer  |  Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise

Operation Clean House, a free countywide recycling event, is set for April 22, providing residents a chance to safely dispose of electronics and household or automotive waste such as cleaners, yard-care products, oil- and aerosol-based paints, pharmaceuticals, motor oil, tires and car batteries.

Organizers said since the event began in 1989, Operation Clean House has safely disposed of over 1 million pounds of waste that otherwise could have ended in local landfills or waterways.

On April 22, more than 100 local volunteers will help collect items for recycling at two area drop-off sites from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.

At the Phillips 66 parking lot, just west of the railroad tracks on Adams Boulevard, volunteers will collect electronics and hazardous household waste such as cleaners, yard-care products, oil- and aerosol-based paints, pharmaceuticals, fluorescent bulbs and more.

Meanwhile, at the Dewey Washington County District 2 barn (two miles east on 9th Street off U.S. Highway 75), volunteers will collect motor oil, antifreeze, automotive batteries, tires and appliances.

One of the most commonly disposed of items at Operation Clean House is electronics, such as old TVs, cell phones and computers.

Operation Clean House also accepts a wide range of household chemicals, and typically every year volunteers collect around 550 gallons of motor oil, 175 gallons of antifreeze, 400 tires, 88 automobile batteries and 6.4 tons of household hazardous waste.

Non-hazardous items, such as general trash, alkaline batteries or latex paint, can go to regular trash pickup and will not be accepted at the Operation Clean House event.

Sponsors of the event include Phillips 66, ConocoPhillips, ChevronPhillips, City of Bartlesville, Washington County, Bartlesville Community Foundation, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Delaware Tribe, Dink’s BBQ, KWON, Cunningham Graphics and Truity Credit Union, Daylight Donuts, Weeze’s Café, Chik Fil A and Transco.

Those interested in volunteering can sign up using the organization’s…

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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — In celebration of Women’s History Month, Penn State University Libraries will host a virtual monthlong Wikipedia editathon focusing on Native American women activists and environmentalists from March 27 through April 18.

Wikipedia editathons are organized events held with the intention of increasing representation on Wikipedia of identified underrepresented groups and providing basic training to new editors. First-time Wikipedia editors are welcome to join the virtual event regardless of level of technology knowledge or experience. Experienced editors will be on hand to answer questions and suggest articles to edit and references to use.  

Links to all event programs, including those listed below, will be available on the Penn State Libraries Wikipedia Editathon Dashboard. Participants can access the dashboard and contribute to the selected pages anytime throughout the period.

• Monday, March 27, 1 to 2 p.m. —Julie Reed and Cathleen Cahill, faculty members in the Department of History in the College of the Liberal Arts, will provide a Zoom training session covering the basics of Wikipedia editing and best practices for writing about Indigenous people and reading and using sources.
• Wednesday, March 29, 11:15 a.m. to 12:05 p.m. — Nicky Michael, a member of the Lenape, a.k.a. Delaware Tribe of Indians, and interim president and executive director of Indigenous Studies and Curriculum at Bacone College, will speak in Foster Auditorium. Her talk is co-sponsored by the Department of History.
• Although participants can edit at their convenience throughout the month, there will be four virtual drop-in meet-ups where participants can edit alongside others:
  • Wednesday, March 29 — 1–3 p.m.
  • Tuesday, April 4 — 10 a.m.–noon
  • Wednesday, April 12 — 1–3 p.m.
  • Tuesday, April 18 — 10 a.m.–noon

For information about getting started with a Wikipedia account, visit the Wikipedia meetup page for the…

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Friday, March 24 and Saturday, March 25

2nd Annual Art-Full Day in the Ville 6 to 8 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Bartlesville Art Association, Price Tower Annex, 500 S Dewey Ave. Suite B. Twelve local artists will open their private studios to the public including art for sale. Visit the BAA website for details: www.bartlesvilleartassociation.org

Friday, March 31

4th Annual Spay-ghetti Fundraiser for Washington County SPCA 6 to 9 p.m. at the Hilton Garden Inn, 205 SW Frank Phillips Blvd. Benefiting the homeless animals from Washington County SPCA, the event will feature dinner, live and silent auction, and wine pull. Tickets are $50 and go on sale Feb. 8 with limited seating. To sponsor the event, or donate auction items, please contact the WCSPCA at 918-336-1577 or info@wcspca.org.

Saturday, April 1

Fools in April, a concert of musical jokes, presented by Bartlesville Chorale 7 to 9 p.m. at the Bartlesville Community Center, 300 SE Adams Blvd. Enjoy a choral concert of fun and silly texts and musical witticisms. Featuring the works of Joseph Haydn, Gilbert and Sullivan, Eric Whitacre, P.D.Q. Bach, and more. Tickets are $15 – $27. For more information or to purchase tickets, call 918-337-2787.

Price Tower’s Annual Youth Art Show Opening Reception 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the Price Tower Art Center, 510 S Dewey Ave. Celebrating youth art education and young artists, this annual Youth Art Show has exhibited more than 300 pieces of artwork from students in public, private, and homeschools from grades Pre-K to 12th grade.

Sunday, April 2

Scouts BSA and YMCA Cornhole Tournament Fundraiser 1 to 5 p.m. at the City Center Pavilion, located at the entrance to Johnstone Park at the corner of Cherokee Avenue and Hensley Boulevard. Join us for drinks, food, cornhole, and competition! Cost is $20. To register,…

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