I acknowledge that the land that I live and work on is the ancestral land of the Lenape People. I would like to pay my respect to Indigenous people; throughout the Lenape diaspora; and across this continent & planet – past, present, and future – and honor those who have been lost, disappeared, displaced, disconnected, abused, and systemically disenfranchised.
Manhattan is an appropriated name from the original Lanape “Mannahatta” meaning Hilly Island.
Learn More
Zinn Education Project & the People’s History
https://newyorknature.us/lenapes/
Reading List
- Hitakonanu’laxk (Tree Beard). The Grandfathers Speak: Native American Folk Tales of the Lenape People. Interlaken Books, 1994
- Zinn, Howard. The People’s History of the United States. Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2015.
- Cantwell, Anne-Marie and Diana diZerega Wall. Unearthing Gotham: The Archaeology of New York City. Yale University Press, 2001.
- Lanape Children’s Books from the Brooklyn Library https://discover.bklynlibrary.org/?booklist=678025
