Category: Lenni Lenape

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Luzerne County Historical Society will host musician Melanie Zinkanis from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 29, at the Nathan Denison House, 35 Denison St., Forty Fort. She will play period music on the harpsichord and violin on site. Tours of the 1790 home will also be given by docents in period attire. Cost is $5 for adults, $3 for children and free for LCHS members. Public is welcome. Reservations are not required. Nathan Denison was one of the first 40 shareholders in the Susquehanna Company to settle five new towns in the Wyoming Valley in February 1769. Denison became a popular leader of the pioneer settlers from Connecticut. He served as a justice of the peace and colonel of the local militia. He was the second in command at the Battle of Wyoming, and was present at the surrender of the Wyoming Valley in 1778. Founded in 1858, the Luzerne County Historical Society is Pennsylvania’s oldest county historical society. For information, visit the website, www.luzernehistory.org or follow the society on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/luzernehistory/.

The Music Box Players non-profit theatre company will hold auditions for “All Together Now,” a musical review opening the Music Box Dinner Playhouse 40th anniversary season at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 12-13 at the Music Box Dinner Playhouse, 196 Hughes St., Swoyersville. Production dates are Nov. 12-14. Auditions are open for all ages 12 and older. Director Dana Feigenblatt asks all auditioning to prepare a song of their choice. Bring a recorded accompaniment. The revue celebrates the worldwide return to live theatre and also the Music Box 40th anniversary. Many of the songs are from shows presented by the Players since 1981 such as “Guys and Dolls,” “Les Miserables,” “My Fair Lady,” “Oliver,” “Into the Woods,” and others. Call 570 283-2195 for information or visit…

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The puppets that arrived in New York City in 1738 were certainly not the first here. Puppets had been created way before then by the Lenape people, who lived in the area for centuries; some of the tiny finger masks they made to represent the god of hunting, Misinghali’kun, in religious rituals still exist. And the Dutch had a tradition of puppetry dating back to the fourteenth century, so surely itinerant Dutch puppeteers existed in New Amsterdam, the colony that their countrymen established in 1624, four decades before the British took over the city and renamed it. But the first-known specific record of a puppet show in New York is an advertisement in the New-York Gazette newspaper, from February 1738, for The Adventures of Harlequin and Scaramouche, or The Spaniard Trick’d, to be performed at Mr. Holt’s Long Room for a ticket price of five shillings.

Both Harlequin and Scaramouche are characters in Punch and Judy, which is “probably one of the oldest continually performed puppetry traditions,” Monxo López explained to me, after he had shown me the exhibit of the Lenape finger mask and the reproduction of the Punch and Judy ad. Now he was pointing out different puppets, from Italy, Germany, Poland and France, each of which was a variation on the Punch character. They were among more than a hundred puppets on display in “Puppets of New York,” the exhibition López curated for the Museum of the City of New York, located in East Harlem.

“Almost every culture has developed their version of Punch”—a political puppet who “speaks truth to power,” López said. And nearly every culture’s puppetry, as his exhibition made clear, found its way to New York City.

“The Chinese were among the earliest here. There were the big dragons used in the…

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Check out the top players back in the conference this fall. These list of returning players include all-division teams that were selected by coaches in 2020.

ALL-RED NORTH

1ST TEAM

F-Tehya Scheuten, Mount Olive, Jr.

F-Hayley Brookes, Morris Knolls, Sr.

MF-Mackenzie Creighton, Morris Hills, Sr.

MF-Zoe Rogan, Mount Olive, Jr.

MF-Audrey McConnell, Randolph, Sr.

MF-Kate Mazzella, Sparta, Sr.

D-Ella Collins, Sparta, Jr.

2ND TEAM

F-Julianna Osterman, Roxbury, So.

MF-Olivia DaSilva, Pope John, Sr.

MF-Abigail Pierson, Sparta, So.

MF-Juliana Dolinski, Sparta, So.

D-Sophia Redmond, Mount Olive, Sr.

D-Hailey Opper, Roxbury, Sr.

HONORABLE MENTION

F-Vanessa Suarez, Roxbury, Jr.

MF-Olivia Enderle, Sparta, Sr.

MF-Mylie McDonough, Morris Knolls, Jr.

MF-Ariana Krone, Randolph, Sr.

D-Nicole Narciso, Morris Hills, Sr.

GK-Aubrey Giordano, Mount Olive, Sr.

ALL-RED SOUTH

1ST TEAM

F-Abigail Fitzsimmons, Mendham, Jr.

F-Kathryn Duff, Morristown, Sr.

F-Kacy Smith, West Morris, Sr.

F/MF-Angelica Castro-Salazar, Mendham, Sr.

MF-Paige Droner, Chatham, Jr.

MF-Cassie Saldarini, Parsippany Hills, Jr.

D/F-Marris Wheeler, Morristown, Sr.

D-Delaney Smith, West Morris, Jr.

2ND TEAM

F-Ashley Kiernan, Chatham, Jr.

F-Lia Manuel, Mendham, So.

MF/F-Molly Cunningham, Morristown, Sr.

MF-Kiera Pohan, Morristown, Jr.

MF-Alexa Murawski, West Morris, Jr.

GK-Sonja Zeepvat, Mendham, Jr.

GK-Alex Jurow, Parsippany Hills, Jr.

GK-Cristina Ryduchowski, Montville, So.

HONORABLE MENTION

MF-Sara Brandt, Mendham, Jr.

MF-Leanne Lombardi, Parsippany Hills, Jr.

D-Ashley Campbell, Montville, Sr.

D-Payton Gjelsvik, West Morris, Sr.

ALL-WHITE NORTH

1ST TEAM

F-Chauncey Gebauer, High Point, Sr.

MF-Martina Brich, Vernon, Sr.

MF-Taylor Squiers, Newton, Sr.

MF-Arin Goriscak, Kittatinny, Sr.

MF-Sarah Harnett, High Point, Sr.

D-Madison Beyer, Kittatinny, Sr.

2ND TEAM

F-Riley Wallace, Vernon, Sr.

F-Leah English, High Point, So.

MF-Claire Merrill, Kittatinny, Jr.

MF-Reagan Hamilton, Vernon, Sr.

MF-Marlene Cimaglia, High Point, Jr.

MF-Jane Einreinhofer, Wallkill Valley, Jr.

GK-Jackie Schels, Wallkill Valley, So.

HONORABLE MENTION

D-Makayla Chiariello, High Point, Jr.

D-Emily Walker, Vernon, Sr.

GK-Hanna Olsen, Kittatinny, So.

ALL-WHITE SOUTH

1ST TEAM

F-Alaina Shramko, North Warren, Jr.

F-Kate Loncar, Jefferson, So.

F-Julia Granda, Morris Tech, Sr.

MF-Kayla Kuncken, Hackettstown, Sr.

D-Laney Kenny, Lenape Valley, Jr.

D-Karlie Kaiser, Hackettstown, Sr.

D-Mia Santana, Lenape Valley, Sr.

GK-Chloe O’ Mahoney, Hopatcong, Sr.

2ND TEAM

F-Christy Brennan, Hopatcong, Sr.

F-Brittany Arcentales, Hopatcong, Sr.

MF-Margaret Reardon, Hackettstown, Sr.

MF-Kelly Zambrana, North Warren, Sr.

MF-Molly Gannon, Lenape Valley, So.

D-Bryn Fitzgerald, Jefferson, Jr.

D-Julia Flynn, Hackettstown, So.

HONORABLE MENTION

MF- Lilly Fejko, Lenape Valley, Jr.

MF- Janie Henderson, Hopatcong, So.

D-Alanna Bishop, Jefferson, So.

ALL-BLUE NORTH

1ST TEAM

F-Henna Andican, Mountain Lakes, Sr.

F-Melissa…

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Williamsport, Pa. — “We acknowledge that the land on which we live, work, and learn is the ancestral home of the Six Nations of the Haudenosaunee, Iroquoian-speaking Susquehannocks and the Lenni Lenape (Delaware),” said Pennsylvania College of Technology in a Land Acknowledgement Statement issued last week.

Pennsylvania College of Technology created an institutional Land Acknowledgement Statement to recognize the Indigenous people who lived where the campus now resides.

According to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian: “Land Acknowledgment is a traditional custom that dates back centuries in many Native nations and communities. Today, Land Acknowledgments are used by Native peoples and non-Natives to recognize Indigenous peoples who are the original stewards of the lands on which we now live.”

“We acknowledge that the land on which we live, work, and learn is the ancestral home of the Six Nations of the Haudenosaunee, Iroquoian-speaking Susquehannocks and the Lenni Lenape (Delaware). We, too, recognize their Woodland Period ancestors,” the acknowledgement reads. “We are grateful for their stewardship and management of this land over thousands of years and promote this recognition in honor and respect of that caretaking.”

The Penn College community notes the importance of understanding and appreciating the long-standing history of the land, and seeking to understand its place within that history in order to chart a better path forward.

“We value the over 100-year history of our institution,” the Land Acknowledgement webpage continues. “And we should value the 16,000 years of history that came before us and prepared the land for the education we now provide.”

The statement and supporting material, linked from the college website’s “About” section, was developed in conjunction with a campus-wide committee that included input from faculty, staff and students.

“At Penn College, we take great pride in the history of our institution’s successful outgrowth from our community, which is celebrated on…

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To the editor:

How fortunate we are to have vigilant citizens like Alex Sprague to awaken the oblivious among us to the historical implications of our city street names, like Lee Street. Sprague, who appears to have lived in Alexandria all of five years and does not live in Old Town, nevertheless professes to have “always loved this town.” He says his campaign to rename our streets is “only the beginning of a magnificent fight for equality and awareness.”

Sprague didn’t explain how renaming Lee Street would accomplish either of those things. His friend and fellow street name activist, Huayra Forster, proposes to rename Lee Street “Wanishi Street” in honor of the Piscataway and Lenape Tribes, the latter whose historical territory, according to Wikipedia, included Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York City, Long Island and the Lower Hudson Valley – but not Virginia.

Today, the Lenape people live in Oklahoma, Wisconsin and Ontario, Canada. It is unclear how renaming a street in Old Town Alexandria will help the Lenape people, who never lived here, achieve “equality.”

As for the fight for “awareness,” my wife and I lived on South Lee Street for 31 years. Of course we were aware of who the street was named after, but it was just our street and not a constant conscious reminder of our nation’s fraught racial history, the Civil War or Robert E. Lee’s role in it.

Erasing the name will do nothing to create the awareness Sprague presumably wishes to foster. Cancellation is not education. Decades from now, Wanishi Street would evoke no…

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The Great Falls of Paterson

A historical video spotlighting the history of the Great Falls of Paterson, NJ.

Michael V. Pettigano, NorthJersey.com

Paterson is well known as being the first industrialized city in the history of the United States. However, long before Alexander Hamilton put his stamp on the city, a group of Indigenous inhabitants, the Lenape Indians, called what is now North Jersey their home.

The Indian Heritage Festival held at the Paterson Great Falls National Historical Park on Saturday and Sunday marked a celebration of the history, culture and ceremonial practices of the Delaware Indians, the modern-day descendants of the Lenape Tribe. 

Traveling all the way from Tulsa, Oklahoma, and led by their grandfather Curtis Zunigha, siblings 15-year-old Cayla Magee and 19-year-old Riley Magee were joined by their mother, Erica Magee, to offer a visual presentation of their heritage through educational lecture, the wearing of traditional and contemporary garb and native tribal dance. 

With the magnificent rush of the Great Falls in the background, Zunigha addressed the crowd of over 200 people on Saturday at the historical national park’s outdoor amphitheater.

“We are so proud to be back at the original home of our ancestors,” Zunigha told the crowd. “The Lenape originally settled in what is now the foothills of…

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More than 1,000 miles from his ancestral homeland, Curtis Zunigha’s gravelly voice managed to drown out the incessant static of a phone line.

All the way from Bartlesville, Oklahoma, you could hear Zunigha’s passion for the countless stories he carries with him of his people, the Lenape.

“I’m preserving in a dynamic way our culture and our history and our traditions, so that I could pass that on to a younger generation and they can keep going, because that’s our obligation to the creator and to the ancestors, for the gift of our culture and our language and our knowledge of who we were and who we are,” he said.

Zunigha is an enrolled member and cultural director of the Delaware Tribe of Indians, one of three federally recognized tribes of the Lenape in the United States — none of which are currently located in their original homeland.

The Lenape, whose name means “the real people,” are indigenous to the Delaware Valley. From parts of New York and eastern Pennsylvania to New Jersey and the coast of Delaware, the Lenape lived in this region for thousands of years. Those relatively newer place names are products of the same colonization that violently uprooted the native people from the area once known as Lenapehoking.

Curtis Zunigha is an enrolled member and cultural director of the Delaware Tribe of Indians. (Courtesy of Curtis Zunigha)

How the Lenape ended up displaced from their homeland…

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Community members in Frenchtown, with the support of the borough, have launched the Frenchtown River Ambassadors (FRA), a project of Sustainable Frenchtown.

FRA volunteers welcome visitors at tents, which are stationed on Saturdays and Sundays throughout the summer in the parking lot south of Frenchtown bridge, and when volunteer capacity permits, at Old Frenchtown Field and 12th Street.

Volunteer ambassadors host an interactive children’s environmental program at 11 a.m. and a river clean-up at 4 p.m., each day. Visitors are also offered brochures with a map of Frenchtown’s amenities, as well as a coupon to present to participating local businesses offering seasonal promotions.

The project was designed and launched by Frenchtown residents: Environmental Commission member and biologist Susan Quackenbush; artist and photographer Jorge Sanchez; former borough council member Holly Low; and local activists Alleigh Sobey and Maggie Cooke. Six more residents serve as volunteer captains, including Pastor Peter Mantell of the United Methodist Church, while an additional 20-plus community members are volunteering as River Ambassadors.

“Frenchtown has become an increasingly popular tourist destination, but during summer 2020, the community experienced a dramatic spike in river visitors, due in part to the pandemic,” according to a written statement provided by Sustainable Frenchtown. “The Borough managed the increase in garbage and parking issues, while complaints about crowds, parking, and litter – as well as hate speech directed at river visitors – piled up on the local social media page,” the statement read.

In response, the Frenchtown River Ambassadors project is “committed to the philosophy that public parks, biodiversity, and open spaces are held in the public trust, and should be accessible to residents and visitors alike, free from discrimination.”

“We decided to take the initiative to do something positive for a healthy coexistence among the people who visit us, our own neighbors and above all, for the…

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