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Members of the Lunaapeew/Lenape community and the Museum of the City of New York invite you to join us for an inaugural weekend of activities celebrating the resilience and cultural heritage of the Munsee people. 

Visitors of all ages can enjoy two days of events with musical and dance performances, craft workshops, a marketplace, and discussions led by Indigenous speakers and artists. Join us and learn about the past, present, and future of the First Nations and First People of the New York City region.

Events on May 4th and May 5th from 11am-4pm daily, including:

Registration will be recommended but not required. Registration will open April 1, 2024. 

400 Years of Resilience 

This two-day event is the public launch of a multi-year partnership between the Eenda-Lunaapeewahkiing (Land of the Lunaapeew) Project and the Museum of the City of New York, with the support of the American Indian Community House and the Dutch Consulate of the Netherlands, in collaboration with the Amsterdam Museum. 

Coinciding with the 400th year since Dutch settlers’ arrival in what is now New York City in 1624, this international effort speaks to the resilience and creativity of Indigenous people today, and to the importance of recognizing their central role in shaping our city and nation. 

ÍiyachKtapihna! (We Are Still Here!) 

The original Indigenous inhabitants of today’s five boroughs are known by many names, including Lenape (from the Unami dialect), Lunaapeew (from the Munsee dialect), Lenni-Lenape, Delaware, and Munsee-Delaware, among others. Many of these communities have been displaced across North America – known as Turtle Island – with several communities nearby in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic United States and in Ontario or Southeastern Canada. The Eenda-Lunaapeewahkiing (EL) Project aims to establish a partnership between these communities, with a vision to unite and hear the voices of the Lunaapeew across Turtle Island. Current participating members of…

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Native Americans in New Hope, covered bridges, postcard collections and premiered one-act plays will provide a wide variety of topics for the New Hope Historical Society’s 22nd annual Speaker Series each Monday in April at 5 p.m., when the Logan Inn will provide its comfortable, modern Logan Theater for the series.

The April Speaker Series, created by longtime board member Lynn Stoner, kicks off April 1, with a talk by Chief Blue Jay, Barbara Michalski, who was given the name by her grandfather, Bill Thompson, late Chief Whippoorwill of the Unalachtigo (people near the ocean) Tribe of the Turkey Clan.

She is a member of Lenape Nation of Pennsylvania (LNPA), and she has immersed herself in the activities of the nation. She serves on the Tribal Council; and is tribal secretary and one of the Storytellers of the Nation. Last year, she was appointed Chief of Culture. She educates the public by attending events or festivals in the Lenapehoking (Homeland of the Lenape).

Blue Jay will present an intimate portrait of Lenni-Lenape life and culture in Bucks County dating back more than eight centuries.

On April 8, R. Scott Bomboy, author, and historian, will present an in-depth look at the birth, demolition, and preservation of covered bridges.

He is the author of “The Lost Covered Bridges of Montgomery County” and “Wooden Treasures: The Story of Bucks County’s Covered Bridges.” Bomboy is also chair of the Bucks County Covered Bridge Society.

Bomboy has received five Edward R. Murrow awards in television, and he currently is the editor-in-chief of the National Constitution Center.

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Attendees at the 13th annual Natives at Penn powwow stand to honor the head staff and organizers at the March 23 event.

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In Photos: Natives at Penn’s 13th annual powwow celebrates organization’s 30th anniversary

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On Feb. 2, 1994, Natives at Penn — known then as Six Directions — was recognized as an official member of the United Minorities Council. 30 years later, Natives at Penn and the Greenfield Intercultural Center (GIC) celebrated their respective 30th and 40th anniversary at Penn’s 13th annual Powwow in the Hall of Flags. The powwow was open to the public and featured singing, intertribal dancing, and Indigenous vendors. 

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Attendees at the Natives at Penn Powwow paired up to participate in a mosquito dance. 

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The Red Blanket Singers of the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape nation were the Host Drum for the powwow. 

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Keturah Peters, 2018 Nursing graduate and the Head Woman Dancer, presented a handmade drum to Natives at Penn. 

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Head Man Dancer Brian Weeden leads an intertribal dance. Lenape social dances are typically performed counter-clockwise, and Lenape instruments are usually small enough to be held in the hand and shaken or beaten upon. 

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Three dancers participated in the Women’s Fancy Shawl, a butterfly-like dance that highlights the dancers’ shawls and footwork.

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The Atlantic City High School girls crew team took home its share of first-place trophies last year.

Many of the rowers who made that happen are back this spring.

Atlantic City won the girls team title at the Atlantic County High School Rowing Championships last May on Lake Lenape in Mays Landing. The Vikings’ girls won the varsity four, junior eight and varsity quad championships at the regatta. A.C. finished the season ranked No. 2 in The Press Elite 11, behind only Holy Spirit.

Despite losing six key rowers to graduation, Atlantic City has a lot back and should be a strong contender in various divisions again this year.

“In my 15 years of coaching, the group we have right now is one of the most dedicated,” Vikings coach Sean Duffey said. “They love the sport, and that’s huge. They love being there every day, and they don’t complain. They’re a good group of athletes, and they’re good leaders toward the younger rowers, which is great.”

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The Vikings will begin the season April 6 at the Lake Lenape Sprints II in Mays Landing. The A.C. girls also compete the following day at the Manny Flick-Horvat Series regatta on the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia.

“We’ll start out with a first eight, a second eight and a varsity four for the first couple races and see how things go,” Duffey said. “We’ll go from there.”

Atlantic City’s varsity-eight lineup includes stroke Lexi Gormley, Lauren Fox, Anna Tran, Kaitlyn Do, Zuzanna Turska, Gabriela Tayoun, Maggie Morgan and bow Mardiha Ahmed. The varsity four consists of stroke Elon Lomax, Ellie Carrasco, Sophia Mammucari and bow Gabby Pagliaro. The Vikings have two good coxswains in Tasnova Tayeba and Isabella Gravely. Ten of those rowers and both coxswains were Press All-Stars last spring.

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NEW HOPE, PA — Native Americans in New Hope, covered bridges, postcard collections and premiered one-act plays will provide a wide variety of topics for the New Hope Historical Society’s twenty-second annual Speaker Series each Monday in April at 5 p.m., when the Logan Inn will generously provide its comfortable, modern Logan Theater for the series.

The April Speaker Series, created by longtime board member Lynn Stoner, kicks off on April 1 when Chief Blue Jay, Barbara Michalski, who was given the name by her grandfather, Bill Thompson, late Chief Whippoorwill of the Unalachtigo (people near the ocean) Tribe of the Turkey Clan. She is a member of Lenape Nation of Pennsylvania (LNPA), and she has immersed herself in the activities of the Nation.

Chief Blue Jay serves on the Tribal Council; and is Tribal Secretary and one of the Storytellers of the Nation. Last year she was appointed Chief of Culture. She has been participating in educating the public by attending events or festivals in the Lenapehokink (Homeland of the Lenape). Blue Jay will present an intimate portrait of Lenni-Lenape life and culture in Bucks County dating back more than eight centuries.

On April 8, R. Scott Bomboy, author, and historian who has frequently written about local history. He is the author of “The Lost Covered Bridges of Montgomery County” and “Wooden Treasures: The Story of Bucks County’s Covered Bridges.” Bomboy is also chair of the Bucks County Covered Bridge Society. In his journalism career, Bomboy has received five Edward R. Murrow awards in television, and he currently is the editor-in-chief of the National Constitution Center. Scott will present an in-depth look at the birth, demolition, and preservation of these beloved Bucks County covered bridges.

Postcard collectors and postcrossers are certain to be delighted by Michael Miciak’s presentation on April 15, “Wish…

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A nearly 400-year-old letter that documents the mythologized ‘purchase’ of the island of Manhattan from the Indigenous peoples who inhabited it is on view now through July 14, at the New-York Historical Society. 

Written by Dutch government official Pieter Schagen, the letter notes “our people…have purchased the Island Manhattes from the Indians for the value of 60 guilders.” A 19th century historian converted the 60 guilders into dollars, which gave rise to the popular belief that the Dutch bought Manhattan for $24. The letter, on loan from the Dutch National Archives in the Hague, where it is not on public display, is the only record that exists of that ‘purchase’ which was later followed by similar transactions by which Europeans took control of the continent of North America from its Native inhabitants.

In response to the display of the letter, leaders of the Lenape people have issued a public reflection on the land transfer including this excerpt:

THIS DAY, we look at that historical letter with no wampum or treaty attached, saying the island of Manahahtáanung was purchased for 60 guilders. Ancestor, who could have known that a Dutch colonizer’s written words and 60 guilders would bring 400 years of devastation, disease, war, forced removal, oppression, murder, division, suicide, and generational trauma for your Lenape people?

Russell Shorto, an expert on Dutch New York and author of the book The Island at the Center of the World, has brought the letter to New York as part of a special exhibit he has curated – New York Before New York: The Castello Plan of New Amsterdam – on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the Dutch founding of a colony that would give rise to New York City. 

“Assembling the artifacts from four centuries ago was a delight, but working with the Lenape chiefs…

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History is full of reckless sales and sensational deals. According to legend, one of the most famous took place in Manhattan, when the natives of the island sold it to the Dutch for a handful of beads and the equivalent of $24 in dry money.

But did that really happen? Maybe no. When European settlers arrived in the Hudson River region, the area was long inhabited by the indigenous Lenape people, who called the green island along the Hudson River Manahatta, or “hill island.”

The Lenape, who spoke an Algonquian language and traded with a variety of other Native American peoples, lived at a certain season of the year on this resource-rich, animal-rich island. And it was the animals, especially beavers, that attracted the attention of the first Europeans who encountered the Lenape people in Manhattan beginning in the 1500s.

In fact, the biggest attraction to North America for the first Europeans had to do with the skins of these animals, which were used to produce the most fashionable hats and many luxury items for European consumers. This is also because the Europeans had hunted so many animals on their continent that their numbers had reached the point of extermination.

Attracted by the abundant beaver furs, Dutch traders began trading with the Lenape people, and soon claimed control of lands stretching from present-day Delaware to Rhode Island on behalf of the Dutch West India Company, which established monopoly on transatlantic trade.

The company established “New Netherland” in 1621, extending Dutch rule to the Hudson River region. In 1624, the Dutch had begun to live in Manhatta, later called Manhattan, in a settlement called New Amsterdam.

The charter of the Dutch West India Company allowed its members to enter into contracts with the “princes and natives” of the region, exchanging…

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