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Photos: Christmas tree lighting in Byram

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Post date December 8, 2024
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Digital Newspaper & Magazine Subscriptions

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Post date December 7, 2024
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Indigenous Culture Fair in Prospect Park

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Post date December 6, 2024
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The Eenda-Lunaapeewahkiing Culture Fair will bring together Lenape and other Indigenous artists from around the region.

Photos by Denise Dunkley and Traditional Hands via Prospect Park Alliance

by Susan De Vries

Head to Prospect Park this weekend for art, music, and culinary delights at the inaugural Eenda-Lunaapeewahkiing Culture Fair. The event, a collaboration of the Prospect Park Alliance, Eenda-Lunaapeewahkiing Collective, and the American Indian Community House, will bring together Lenape and other Indigenous artists from around the region.

On Saturday, December 7 and Sunday, December 8, more than a dozen Indigenous artisans will display their hand-crafted wares. Attendees will also be able to check out food vendors, participate in workshops, and experience the music, dancing, and drumming of The Red Blanket Singers.

The event takes place from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Picnic House and is free to the public. More information, including a list of some of the participating vendors, can be found on the event page online.

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Boys & Girls Bowling: Results and links for Tuesday, Dec. 3

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Post date December 5, 2024
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Tuesday, Dec. 3

BCSL

Ewing 4, Maple Shade 0 – Box Score

GMC

South Brunswick 3, East Brunswick 1 – Box Score

St. Joseph (Met.) 4, Woodbridge 0 – Box Score

Monroe 4, Old Bridge 0 – Box Score

Edison 4, Middlesex 0 – Box Score

OLYMPIC

Cherokee 4, Shawnee 0 – Box Score

Eastern 4, Seneca 0 – Box Score

Camden Tech 4, Camden Catholic 0 – Box Score

Cherry Hill East 4, Cherry Hill West 0 – Box Score

Lenape 4, St. Augustine 0 – Box Score

SHORE

Toms River North 2, Brick Memorial 1 – Box Score

Toms River South 2, Toms River East 1 – Box Score

Central Regional 2, Brick Township 1 – Box Score

Middletown North 3, Long Branch 0 – Box Score

Red Bank Regional 3, Monmouth 0 – Box Score

Middletown South 2427, Shore 2006 – Box Score

Matawan 3, Keansburg 0 – Box Score

Keyport 3, St. John Vianney 0 – Box Score

SKYLAND

Hunterdon Central 7, Watchung Hills 0 – Box Score

Franklin 7, Bridgewater-Raritan 0 – Box Score

Belvidere 4, Warren Hills 3 – Box Score

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Culture Fair to Celebrate Lenape, Indigenous Heritage at Prospect Park

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Post date December 4, 2024
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The Eenda-Lunaapeewahkiing Indigenous Culture Fair on Dec. 7 and Dec. 8 will include performances, craft vendors and workshops celebrating Lenape and other Indigenous traditions.

The Eenda-Lunaapeewahkiing Indigenous Culture Fair will occur on Dec. 7 and Dec. 8 in Prospect Park, with performances, craft vendors and workshops celebrating Lenape and other Indigenous traditions.

Highlights of the event include performances by the Red Blanket Singers, who will share songs, dances and drumming, according to a press release. Attendees can also participate in corn husk-making workshops and enjoy Indigenous cuisine from vendors such as the award-winning Sly Fox Den.

In addition, over a dozen Indigenous artisans will showcase their work, including Turtle Soul Native Arts, Schenandoah Deerskin Designz and Blue Turquoise Rose Trading Post.

The event, held at the Picnic House, is organized by Prospect Park Alliance, in collaboration with the Eenda-Lunaapeewahkiing Collective and the American Indian Community House.

“We are honored to welcome these talented artists and artisans from across the regions to the heart of Brooklyn’s Backyard, their ancestral homeland and share their culture with our community,” said Prospect Park Alliance President Morgan Monaco.

The fair is part of the Alliance’s ReImagine Lefferts initiative, a project transforming the Lefferts Historic House Museum to focus on the history, resistance and resilience of the Lenape and enslaved Africans who once lived on these lands. The event is funded by grants from the American Indian Community House and New York City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams.

“Indigenous people and culture have profoundly shaped New York City,” said Speaker Adams. “The Council is proud to support this event, offering New Yorkers a chance to celebrate the rich history of the Lenape people. Understanding our past is essential to building a brighter, inclusive future.”

For more information on the fair, click here.

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Mellon Foundation Awards Montclair $1M to Expand Native American and Indigenous Studies Program

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Post date December 3, 2024
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December 3, 2024

Grant will fund creation of the New Jersey Center for Indigenous Justice and support growth of Native American and Indigenous Studies

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Members of the Red Blanket Singers of the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape tribe perform a traditional dance at Montclair’s 2022 celebration of Indigenous Peoples Day. (Photo by Mike Peters)

The Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS) program of Montclair State University’s College of Humanities and Social Sciences has been awarded a three-year, $1 million grant from the Mellon Foundation to create a new center, the New Jersey Center for Indigenous Justice (NJCIJ), and to expand its programing.

With its commitment to Indigenous rights, racial justice, decolonization and eco-justice, the NAIS program emphasizes the priorities of New Jersey’s state-recognized Native American tribes – the Ramapough Lunaape, Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape and Powhatan Renape nations – which include environmental justice, political recognition, cultural heritage and language revitalization.

The NJCIJ will be a center for communication, fundraising, events and gatherings that highlight the unique questions facing Montclair’s Indigenous students and New Jersey’s tribal communities. It will coordinate the University’s work to change public narratives, increase Indigenous student enrollment and pursue justice-oriented action on issues affecting Native people in the state.

“The NJCIJ will give focus to the varied work Montclair faculty and students are doing in partnership with New Jersey’s tribal communities,” says Anthropology Department Chair Chris Matthews, a co-director of NAIS and co-Principal Investigator of the grant. “[It] will be the first and only university-based project in New Jersey that aims to transform public understanding of Native people and to do so in partnership with Indigenous communities across the…

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Girls swimming: Divisional classifications for the 2024-25 season

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Post date December 2, 2024
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Big North

Freedom Division: Fair Lawn, Hackensack, Northern Highlands, Ridgewood, River Dell

Liberty Division: Clifton, Lakeland, Pascack Valley, Passaic, Passaic Tech

National Division: Demarest, Indian Hills, Mahwah, Ramapo, Ramsey

Patriot Division: Old Tappan, Paramus, Tenafly, Wayne Hills, Wayne Valley

United Division: Immaculate Heart, Paramus Catholic

Cape-Atlantic

American Division: Egg Harbor, Mainland, Ocean City, Our Lady of Mercy, Vineland

National Division: Absegami, Atlantic City, Cedar Creek, Holy Spirit, Middle Township, Oakcrest

CVC

Colonial Division: Hightstown, Hopewell Valley, Lawrence, Notre Dame, Princeton, West Windsor-Plainsboro North, West Windsor-Plainsboro South

Valley Division: Ewing, Hamilton West, Nottingham, Robbinsville, Steinert, Trenton

GMC

Red Division: East Brunswick, Monroe, Old Bridge, South Brunswick, St. Thomas Aquinas

White Division: Metuchen, Mother Seton, North Brunswick, Piscataway, Sayreville

NJAC

American Division: Chatham, Morris Hills, Morris Knolls, Morristown, Randolph, Roxbury

Freedom Division: Hackettstown, High Point, Kittatinny, Lenape Valley, Vernon

Independence Division: Hanover Park, Kinnelon, Madison, Mountain Lakes

Liberty Division: Morristown-Beard, Parsippany, Parsippany Hills, Pequannock, Villa Walsh

National Division: Mendham, Montville, Mount Olive, Pope John, Sparta, West Morris

NJIC

Garfield, Harrison, Leonia, Lyndhurst, Mary Help of Christians, New Milford, Rutherford, Secaucus, Weehawken

SEC

American Division: Columbia, Livingston, Millburn, Montclair, Montclair Kimberley, Mount St. Dominic, Newark Academy, West Essex

Liberty Division: Bloomfield, Caldwell, Glen Ridge, Newark East Side, Science Park, St. Benedict’s, Verona, West Orange

Shore

A North Division: Colts Neck, Holmdel, Marlboro, Red Bank Catholic, Red Bank Regional, Rumson-Fair Haven, St. Rose, Trinity Hall

A South Division: Central Regional, Donovan Catholic, Jackson Memorial, Manasquan, Point Pleasant Boro, Southern, Toms River East, Toms River South

B North Division: Freehold Township, Howell, Manalapan, Middletown South, Ocean Township, Ranney, Shore, Wall

B South Division: Barnegat, Brick Memorial, Brick Township, Lacey, Manchester Township, Toms River North

C North Division: Freehold Borough, Long Branch, Middletown North, Monmouth, Neptune, Raritan, St. John Vianney

SJSL

Caribbean Division: Eastern, Haddon Township, Lenape, Moorestown, Moorestown Friends, Rancocas Valley, Seneca

Mediterranean Division: Camden Catholic, Cherokee, Cherry Hill East, Cherry Hill West, Haddonfield, Shawnee

Skyland

Delaware Division: Bridgewater-Raritan, Hillsborough, Mount St. Mary, Pingry, Ridge, Watchung Hills

Raritan Division: Bernards, Hunterdon Central,…

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Olympic Conference boys soccer all-stars, 2024

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Post date December 1, 2024
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OLYMPIC CONFERENCE ALL-STARS

NOTE: These teams are selected by the Olympic Conference, not NJ.com.

AMERICAN DIVISION

First Team

Jake Bartletta, Rancocas Valley, Sr., F
Sean McFadden, Shawnee, Sr., F
Cruz Candray, Cherry Hill East, Jr., F
Nate Linden, Eastern, Sr., F
Antonio Perez, Lenape, Sr., F
Danny Williams, Shawnee, Sr., F
Lukas Heon, Lenape, Sr., M
Connor Winters, Shawnee, Sr., M
Jacob Santamaria, Shawnee, Sr., M
Ashton Ritter, Cherokee, Jr., M
Darrin Doyle, Shawnee, Sr., D
Cooper Adinolfi, Shawnee, Jr., D
Joe Robb, Cherokee, Sr., D
Will Reid, Lenape, Sr., D
Dylan Johnson, Eastern, Sr., D
Cole Butler, Cherokee, Jr., G
Jack Luehrs, Cherry Hill East, Sr., G

Second Team

Liam McCloskey, Cherokee, Sr., F
Noli Murtaj, Cherokee, Jr., F
Matt Capriotti, Eastern, Sr., F
Santiago Villalba, Lenape, Sr., F
Nolan Perry, Cherry Hill East, Jr., F
Chase Salerno, Cherokee, Jr., M
Brett Maggs, Rancocas Valley, Sr., M
Logan Cherkas, Eastern, Jr., M
Aiden Santamaria, Shawnee, Sr., M
Andrew Gallardo, Cherry Hill East, Sr., M
Chase Dougherty, Eastern, Sr., D
Matthew Cyganik, Cherry Hill East, Sr., D
Cale Stielau, Shawnee, Sr., D
Andrew Szymanik, Lenape, Sr., D
Jake Ricciardi, Rancocas Valley, Sr., D
Evan Gonzalez, Lenape, Sr., G
Brady Lynch, Eastern, Sr., G

NATIONAL DIVISION

First Team

Declan Capps, Moorestown, Sr., F
Luke Rath, Seneca, Sr., F
Jordan Marrero, Cherry Hill West, Sr., F
Chase Giambri, Paul VI, Jr., F
Cooper Macri, Cherry Hill West, Jr., F
Alfay Depaula, Moorestown, Jr., M
Travis Hemphill, Paul VI, Sr., M
Christian Pacella, Cherry Hill West, Sr., M
Jacob Syntil, Winslow, Sr., M
Travis Bauer, Seneca, Sr., M
Luke Damian, Moorestown, Sr., M
Aiden Ryder, Cherry Hill West, Sr., D
Brady McDonough, Bishop Eustace, Sr., D
Vaughn Worthing, Seneca, Jr., D
Andrew Coutinho, Moorestown, Sr., D
Charles Byrd-Leitner, Moorestown, Sr., D
Michael Della Rosa, Moorestown, Sr., G
Matthew Corsetti, Paul VI, Sr., G

Second Team

Jake Bauer, Seneca, Jr., F
Owen Callinan, Camden Catholic, Jr., M
Luke Plunkett, Paul VI, Sr., M
Jim Ramirez, Camden Catholic, Sr., M
Chukwudi Obasi, Camden Catholic, Jr., M
Jake Lenghe, Paul VI, Sr., D
Gavin Tallant, Seneca, Sr., D
Brody Harris, Winslow, Sr., D
Chiz Obasi, Camden Catholic, Sr., D
Benjamin Mrvica, Bishop…

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Rekindling Indigenous Knowledge | U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

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Post date November 30, 2024
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The seals of the three federally recognized Lenape Tribal Nations in the United States – the Delaware Nation, Delaware Tribe of Indians and the Stockbridge-Munsee Community.

Since time immemorial, Indigenous peoples have cared for the land today’s American public live, work, and recreate on.

The Service has a trust responsibility for federally recognized Tribal Nations and must consider whether our proposed actions will affect Tribal interests. We coordinate best practices for landscape conservation and cultural and historic preservation in accordance with federal laws and our Native American Policy. Our decision-making is enhanced by Tribes’ Traditional Ecological Knowledge — or Indigenous Knowledge — which is the evolving wisdom and experience acquired by Indigenous peoples over thousands of years, through their direct contact with the environment.

But how can Indigenous communities that were forcibly removed from their ancestral homelands give substantial information on how to care for them?

Three Lenape Tribes facing this conundrum wanted to reconnect their youth with their ancestral homeland in the Delaware River Watershed. Thanks to some guidance from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and an America the Beautiful Challenge grant, the Tribes can make this dream a reality.

Lenape Tribes’ Homelands

During the 19th century, three Lenape Tribal Nations were forced by war, disease and exploitative treaties to leave the territories that had supported their ancestors for millennia. Called the Lënapehòkink, these territories include modern northeastern Delaware, New Jersey, eastern Pennsylvania along the Delaware River watershed, New York City, western Long Island and the lower Hudson Valley.

Map of the Lënapehòkink displaying its reach of territories from New York down to New Jersey. (Credit: Nikater/Wikipedia)

Following a painful period of westward removals, the Delaware Tribe and Delaware Nation resettled in Oklahoma, and the Stockbridge-Munsee Community resettled in Wisconsin. They are the three federally recognized Lenape Tribal Nations in the United States.