The Land We’re On: Living Lenapehoking | LIVE from NYPL

Contributors to "A Lenapehoking Anthology" explore the personal journeys of people seeking welcome in their ancestral homeland while pushing back against their erasure. For speaker bios, event details and more, visit https://www.nypl.org/events/programs/...


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Before New York City, there was Lenapehoking, the ancestral land of the Lenape people. Forcibly displaced by European settlers, their land was stolen to create settler states. Now, in an act of reclamation, A Lenapehoking Anthology, recently published by the Lenape Center and the Brooklyn Public Library, contends with subjects ranging from the myth of the purchase of Manhattan to the self-curation of indigenous art and culture.

Lenape Center co-founders and co-directors Joe Baker, Curtis Zunigha, and Hadrien Coumans join Cora Fisher, Curator of Visual Art Programming at Brooklyn Public Library, in conversation.

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This program is made possible by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF).


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