Category: Lenni Lenape

Newton and Vernon remained atop their respective divisions after both won their games Friday, Oct. 6. The only loss for both teams was their season opener to Warren Hills.

On Friday, the Braves defeated Hackettstown, 34-13, bringing their record to 5-1.

Dylan Cotter, Matthew Teets and Nick Kurilko each made a touchdown for Newton in the first quarter. Cotter also scored in the second quarter and Brenden Lynch added another touchdown in the fourth quarter. Kurilko kicked four points after touchdowns.

Quarterback Matt Ellsworth completed five of seven pass attempts for a total of 169 yards.

Vernon wins, 41-14

Vernon defeated West Milford, 41-14, boosting its record to 6-1. West Milford’s record is 3-4.

On Friday, Logan Pych, Gavin Pych and Aden Karwoski scored in the first quarter for the Vikings. Gavin Pych made two more touchdowns and Franco Luna and Aydin Deane made one each.

Luca Vizzini kicked five points after touchdowns.

Karwoski completed 10 of 16 pass attempts for a total of 142 yards, and Logan Pych rushed for a total of 145 yards.

Pope John loses

Pope John was defeated by Delbarton, 30-6, at home Saturday.

The Lions’ record slid to 5-2. No. 6-ranked Delbarton (5-1) leads the United White division.

Delbarton running back Ryan Trafford gained 146 yards on the ground and scored three touchdowns. Philip Folmar made a rushing touchdown.

Pope John defensive back Nicholas Vannatta intercepted a pass in the first half.

The Lions’ only score, by Tyler Houser, came in the fourth quarter on a 12-yard blocked punt return.

Lions quarterback Chris Dietrich completed 18 of 30 pass attempts for a total of 85 yards.

Lenape Valley wins

Lenape Valley beat Wallkill Valley, 21-14, on Friday. The Patriots’ record is 4-3 while the Rangers are 2-5.

Ryan Stricchola and Tanner Gaboda scored one…

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DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (WPVI) — Never Broken: Visualizing Lenape Histories presents new Indigenous perspectives on historic events in early America.

“We look at the way that art can shape and convey stories about history and identity throughout time,” says Dr. Laura Turner Igoe, the Gerry and Marguerite Lenfest Chief Curator at the Michener Art Museum.

“Showing it here, in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, holds extra meaning,” says Joe Baker, who is an enrolled member of the Delaware Tribe of Indians.

“This is our ancestral land, so this exhibit is really about a homecoming,” he says.

Baker is the Co-Curator of Never Broken: Visualizing Lenape Histories, as well as the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Lenape Center in Manhattan, New York.

He’s also an artist who made pieces for the exhibition, like the Big House Post, made from a Bigtooth Aspen tree.

“The Big House ceremony was the principal religion of the Lenape,” he says.

Three other Indigenous artists are featured.

Holly Wilson uses sculptures to tell her story with a piece she calls “Bloodline.”

Wilson says she originally created it trying to prove her son’s lineage.

“Each of these logs represents a generation of my family,” she says.

Ahchipaptunhe, a modern native artist, created paintings “made in response to historic Lenape ceramics and baskets,” according to Dr. Igoe.

Ahchipaptunhe says the four works he created are “based on fire, water, earth and breath.”

“From the idea of the life that’s put into the pottery,” he says.

Artist Nathan Young reexamines the Walking Purchase of 1737 in his sound and video installation.

“I really don’t know what things were like for them,” says Young of his ancestors.

However, he says that’s what he would like people to think about, “being faced with being forced to leave,” when viewing his work.

“The exhibition is really intended to be a conversation,” says Baker. “It’s about really bringing back our contemporary voice to…

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As Philadelphia prepares to celebrate its third Indigenous Peoples Day, several monuments, statues, and commemorations of explorer Christopher Columbus remain throughout the city.

Despite a recent national movement to remove or recast them, the U.S. still had at least 149 monuments honoring the Italian explorer, per a 2021 audit from local art and history studio Monument Lab. 

It’s a subject of intense debate, in Philly and elsewhere, as Columbus is held by some Italian Americans as a symbol of cultural pride, and seen by others as representative of the genocide and violent human rights abuses perpetrated against Indigenous peoples in the Americas. 

There are not many monuments in Philadelphia to the Lenape people, the original inhabitants of the region, and scholars say many that do exist are based on inaccurate stereotypes. The Tedyuscung statue in Wissahickon Valley, for example, wears a Western Plains headdress rather than the traditional clothing used by the Lenape people, as does “The Medicine Man” statue in East Fairmount Park. 

Members of the Lenape Nation say more education and honoring of the contemporary communities is an important step in reconciling historical gaps in representation. 

Confronting the continued presence of Columbus in public spaces is part of that reckoning, local Indigenous leaders say — while some of Philly’s Italian American residents remain adamant Columbus remains an important figure who represents the discrimination Italian American immigrants faced after arriving in the U.S. some four hundred years after him.

Here’s a look at the most prominent markers to Christopher Columbus in Philadelphia, and an update on efforts to change them.

Columbus statue at Marconi Plaza

Perhaps the most well-known of these monuments in Philly, the 147-year-old marble Christopher Columbus statue in Marconi Plaza appears here to stay, at least for now.

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West Point

Sept. 3, 2023

(Federation of Aboriginal Nations of the Americas- FANA.  SandHill Band of Lenape and Cherokee Indians [NY, NJ. PA] – SandHill)

Normally over the Labor Day weekend, I would relax with family.  However, this past Labor Day had found me doing something entirely different.  

A group of FANA representatives were invited to participate in the 62nd Annual Memorial Celebration commemorating the Buffalo Soldiers that would be held at the Buffalo Soldiers Monument located at West Point on September 3, 2023.

FANA’s Minister of International Affairs, Principal Chief Dr. Ronald Yonaguska Holloway of the SandHill Band of Lenape and Cherokee Indians (NY, NJ. PA); FANA member, Chief Joel Tureygua Rosario Tapia; FANA’s Director of Indigenous Affairs and Cultural Outreach to the United Nations, Ms. Maria Lorena Cosme; SandHill Tribal Council Member Carrie Jones, FANA’s Director of Visual Media and Digital Content, Norris Branham; SandHill Tribal Council Member Carrie Jones, and I attended the Buffalo Soldiers memorial.

Now why is this so important?  It is the first time that West Point recognized an Aboriginal  Federation and invited FANA’s Minister of International Affairs, Principal Chief Dr. Ronald Yonaguska Holloway of the SandHill, and a FANA delegation to attend the memorial service.  Principal Chief Holloway was invited to speak at the memorial service.  He was also asked to assist in laying a wreath in front of the memorial.

We were warmly greeted and the Cadets were very respectful to our delegation.  The Chiefs were escorted to their seats in the front row, while the rest of us sat behind them.

Permit me to deviate slightly from the Buffalo Soldiers.  It should be mentioned at this time that both Principal Chief Dr. Ronald Yonaguska Holloway and Chief Joel Tureygua Rosario Tapia are veterans and that indigenous people…

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Nicholas Emeigh.
Credit: Submitted

A Bucks County university is partnering with regional leaders and organizations to host a community forum on Thursday.

“Our Mental Health Crisis: A Path to Hope and Help” will spotlight a spectrum of services available locally and statewide, including crisis intervention, peer support, mobile care, treatment centers, and outpatient options.

The free public event will begin at 6:30 p.m. in the Life Sciences Building Auditorium of Delaware Valley University in Doylestown.

File photo.

Preceding the main presentations, from 6:15 p.m. to 7 p.m., local organizations such as Lenape Valley Foundation, Woods Services, and the Bucks County Department of Human Services will host information booths on mental health resources.

Attendees will hear from leading mental health professionals on accessing vital care when needed. There’s a rising demand for mental health care in the area, and many remain unaware of available resources, organizers said.

Light refreshments will be provided.

Attendees are asked to RSVP at marion.callahan@delval.edu.

Nicholas Emeigh, keynote speaker and survivor of three suicide attempts, will discuss his personal journey and his current role with the National Alliance of Mental Illness (NAMI), guiding others to treatment and support through various programs. Emeigh is a Levittown-area native and recently was given a ROAR Alumni Award from Harry S. Truman High School.

U.S. Sen. John Fetterman, a Democrat, will join via video to discuss federal initiatives aimed at bolstering mental health resource accessibility and will share insights from his personal experiences.

John Fetterman speaking. File photo.
Credit: PA Internet News Service

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Newton remains at the top of the American Blue division of the SFC with a 4-1 record.

The Braves defeated Lenape Valley, 34-7, on Friday, Sept. 29.

Lenape Valley, with a 3-3 record, is second in the division.

Vernon leads the American White division with a 5-1 record after defeated Lakeland, 27-6, on Friday.

Lakeland holds second place in the division with a 4-2 record.

Jefferson and West Milford are tied for third place in the American White division with 3-3 overall records.

Shutout by Sussex Tech

Sussex Tech shut out Hackettstown, 41-0, on Friday. Its overall record is 4-2 but 1-2 against division opponents.

Hackettstown is 0-3 in the division and 1-5 overall.

Senior Andrew Baker and junior quarterback Brian Gruber each scored twice for the Mustangs and senior Will White and junior Zach Doyle each added touchdowns.

Gruber kicked four points after touchdowns, of six attempts, and rushed for a total of 109 yards.

Senior Samuel Fara added two points after one touchdown.

Sparta’s first win

Sparta posted its first win of the season, defeating Jefferson, 20-13, there on Friday.

Senior Jon Calderon posted the Spartans’ first points in the first quarter and senior Josh Brancy added touchdowns on passes from sophomore quarterback Shane Hoover in the first and third quarters.

Sophomore Jason Post and senior Jeff Evans scored for the Falcons.

Calderon rushed for a total of 168 yards, and Hoover completed 13 of 26 pass attempts for a total of 158 yards.

Wallkill Valley loses

Wallkill Valley lost to Whippany Park, 18-7, on Friday.

Its overall record is 2-4 and 1-1 against division opponents.

Junior quarterback Zach Clarken posted the only points for the Rangers in the third quarter.

Senior Andrew Deehan made both touchdowns for the Wildcats after the team scored a safety in the…

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A 19-year-old Perkasie man is accused of stabbing a teenager at a skate park Monday afternoon.

Perkasie police responded to Grand View Hospital, where they met with the mother of a 15-year-old boy who was allegedly stabbed at the Lenape Skate Park on Constitutional Avenue, according to a probable cause statement.

The mother told police when she met her son at the park pavilion that she saw blood on his shirt. She was then approached by Nikolas Anthony Lore, who apologized to her.

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The woman immediately took her son to the hospital where he was treated for non-life-threatening injuries, police said.

The victim alleged that while at the park, Lore retrieved a 10- to 12-inch knife from his car and began walking toward him with the knife in a sheath, police said. The victim ran away, but felt something hit his back twice. He ran into a bathroom where he noticed two cuts about four inches long on his upper back.

Medical personnel told police the wounds would require stitches, the affidavit said.

Police returned to the skate park where they found Lore, who had been taken into custody. The knife allegedly used in the attack has also been seized, police said.

The charging documents provide no details about what led to the alleged attack.

Lore was indicted on charges including aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and related charges. He is being held at the Bucks County Correctional Center in lieu of 10% bail on $150,000.

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Every September 17, Americans across the country observe Constitution Day, an opportunity to remember and celebrate the monumental task our founding fathers took on in 1787 to create a new form of government. During the Constitutional Convention in the summer of 1787, Pennsylvania sent eight delegates to Philadelphia who would attempt to craft the most important document in American history using their expertise and experience in a variety of fields.

While the battle for an effective governmental structure raged in the East, a very different conflict continued to cause strife in the wild wilderness of central Pennsylvania: the struggle between Native Americans and westward expansion. 

Native Americans have existed in central Pennsylvania for thousands of years, with sites near modern-day Houserville dating back several thousand years. Centuries before European colonization along the East Coast, Native groups like the Lenape and Susquehannock thrived in the wilderness that was rich with with fish, game, and tillable soil. With the arrival of Europeans throughout the seventeenth century, changes had been forced on Native peoples. Tribes that were traditionally east of central Pennsylvania were forced from their homes by the increasing population of European immigrants. Clashes were common, but the results were the same. Eventually the frontline of those battles would make its way to the heart of the Appalachian Mountains.

By the mid-eighteenth century, conflict between Native Americans and Europeans, both French and British, were well documented. Many pushed for Great Britain or France to deal with the Native groups using direct force, but the European kingdoms responded by strategically constructing forts, likely defending themselves against each other as much as against Native attacks. At the onset of the French and Indian War, Native Americans all across America would be caught in the middle, forced to choose sides or face extinction.

Locally, the…

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“WHEN THE SHADBUSH BLOOMS, THE SHADFISH RETURN”: This acrylic on paper work by Susan Hoenig is featured in “On Lenape Land,” on view October 1 through December 31 at the Tulpehaking Nature Center in Hamilton.

“On Lenape Land,” an exhibition of paintings and forest compositions by Susan Hoenig, will be on view October 1 through December 31 at the Tulpehaking Nature Center, 157 Westcott Avenue, Hamilton. An opening reception is on October 1 from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m.

The artist states: “The land upon which we gather is part of the traditional territory of the Lenape, called Lenapehoking. The Lenape people lived in harmony with the land for thousands of years.

“Crosswicks Creek and the Bordentown Bluffs are at the edge of the Abbott Marshlands, an area in New Jersey that was the largest site for Middle Woodland occupation in the Northeast. For at least 13,000 years Native Americans were drawn to the Bordentown Bluffs overlooking the flood plains around the wetland margins, on the banks of the Delaware River. They often built their settlements on the bluffs; fish and the plants of the marsh areas were an important reason why they came. The size of the groups the Native Americans lived in varied significantly over time. They tended the natural plants on the land and gathered them for food and medicine for thousands of years before they started to plant corn.

“I took many Friends for the Abbott Marshlands walks led by Charlie and Mary (Allessio) Leck to observe avian and plant life. In the spring of 2021, Mary Leck, botanist and emeritus professor at Rider University, invited me to accompany her with naturalists and conservationists to walk the trails along the Bordentown Bluffs edge, 60 feet above Crosswicks Creek. Mary pointed…

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