The Prospect Park Alliance, in collaboration with the Éenda-Lŭnaapeewáhkiing Collective, have created the “Voices of Lunáapeew/Lenape” exhibit running through Nov. 30.
Photo courtesy of Prospect Park Alliance
This Indigenous Peoples Day, Prospect Park is honoring the history and resilience of the land’s first inhabitants through a powerful blend of art, storytelling and celebration in Brooklyn.
The Prospect Park Alliance and the Éenda-Lŭnaapeewáhkiing Collective (EL Collective) have joined forces to present “Eelunaapéewi Ehaptoonáakanal: Voices of Lunáapeew/Lenape,” a new video exhibition at the Lefferts Historic House running through Nov. 30.
The exhibit, part of the ReImagine Lefferts initiative, features “video interviews with Lunáapeew/Lenape knowledge-keepers and culture bearers about their relationships to their ancestral homelands.”
George Stonefish, co-founder of the EL Collective and advisor for ReImagine Lefferts said the exhibit is meant to increase public understanding of the Lenape.
“We are a nation who has been scattered to the winds because of the greed of not just the Dutch, but also the English after that and so forth, who chased us and massacred us for out land,” he said. “I want people to understand who the Lenape were and are, and the things we’ve given to modern culture that aren’t acknowledged.”
The exhibit tells the story of Lunáapeew/Lenape “knowledge-keepers and culture bearers about their relationships to their ancestral homelands.”Photo courtesy of Prospect Park Alliance
The exhibit honors the Lunáapeew/Lenape, whose name means “the ones who came from thought.” Their ancestral homelands, known as Lenapehoking, encompass what is now Brooklyn and much of the surrounding areas. The exhibition explores both their deep spiritual connection to the land and their enduring fight to preserve their culture in the face of centuries of displacement and colonization.
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