Media and Articles
Design, Unearthed and Unfettered, in Cooper Hewitt’s Triennial
Museums closed Native American exhibits 6 months ago. Tribes are still waiting to get items back
Museums closed Native American exhibits 6 months ago. Tribes are still waiting to get items back
"Starting in November, 25 new site-specific installations that explore the idea of home will fill the former Carnegie mansion in Manhattan.
In “Going Home,” the triennial’s opening section, an installation by the Lenape Center comments on the mansion’s setting. Titled “Welcome to Territory,” it features the three suspended turkey-feather capes, a kind once worn by the Lenape people, the region’s original inhabitants."
Article by Laurel Graeber
Photographs by Jeenah Moon
October 23, 2024
Museums closed Native American exhibits 6 months ago. Tribes are still waiting to get items back
Museums closed Native American exhibits 6 months ago. Tribes are still waiting to get items back
Museums closed Native American exhibits 6 months ago. Tribes are still waiting to get items back
"For more than six months now, the ceremonial Ohtas, or Doll Being, has been hidden from view after the museum and others nationally took dramatic steps to board up or paper over exhibits in response to new federal rules requiring institutions to return sacred or culturally significant items to tribes — or at least to obtain consent to display or study them."
Article by Philip Marcelo
July 31, 2024
400 years after the birth of New York, Native Americans demand accountability
Museums closed Native American exhibits 6 months ago. Tribes are still waiting to get items back
400 years after the birth of New York, Native Americans demand accountability
"Dispossessed of their land four centuries ago by Dutch settlers who arrived in what is now New York, the descendants of Manhattan's original occupants, the Lenapes, are fighting for recognition."
Article by Alexis Buisson
May 31, 2024
New York, Native American City
Mayor Adams Hosts First-Ever Mayoral Reception Celebrating Native American and Indigenous Heritage
400 years after the birth of New York, Native Americans demand accountability
"Dispossessed of their territory by the Dutch in the 17th century, the Lenape left the region and traces of their past were erased. At a time of celebrations surrounding the arrival of the first settlers, the descendants of the natives seek to perpetuate the memory of their ancestors and claim their place in the American national story."
Article by Raphaëlle Besse Desmoulières
March 30, 2024
Mary Kathryn Nagle's Manahatta Opens New York Premiere December 5
Mayor Adams Hosts First-Ever Mayoral Reception Celebrating Native American and Indigenous Heritage
Mayor Adams Hosts First-Ever Mayoral Reception Celebrating Native American and Indigenous Heritage
"The work follows a young Native woman who reconnects with her ancestral Lenape homeland after moving from Oklahoma to New York for a banking job in 2008. The piece was written as part of The Public's Emerging Writers Group, and returns to The Public for a full production following earlier runs at Oregon Shakespeare Festival and Yale Repertory Theatre."
Article by Logan Culwell-Block
December 05, 2023
Mayor Adams Hosts First-Ever Mayoral Reception Celebrating Native American and Indigenous Heritage
Mayor Adams Hosts First-Ever Mayoral Reception Celebrating Native American and Indigenous Heritage
Mayor Adams Hosts First-Ever Mayoral Reception Celebrating Native American and Indigenous Heritage
"Joe Baker, Executive Director and Co-Founder of Lenape Center, speaks at Gracie Mansion to kick off the first ever Native American Heritage Month with Mayor Eric Adams at Gracie Mansion. "
Transcript
November 14, 2023
Google Arts & Culture
Live from NYPL - The Land We’re On: Living Lenapehoking
Live from NYPL - The Land We’re On: Living Lenapehoking
Through a partnership with Google Arts & Culture, Lenapehoking, the first Lenape-curated exhibit on Lenape land, can now be accessed virtually. The virtual exhibit includes photos and descriptions of the pieces on display, historical context for the exhibition, and additional resources highlighting Lenape Center's work in resisting erasure and coming home to Lenapehoking.
Live from NYPL - The Land We’re On: Living Lenapehoking
Live from NYPL - The Land We’re On: Living Lenapehoking
Live from NYPL - The Land We’re On: Living Lenapehoking
Contributors to A Lenapehoking Anthology explore the personal journeys of people seeking welcome in their ancestral homeland while pushing back against their erasure.
(Recording available below)
March 6, 2023
Lenapehoking exhibit at Brooklyn Public Library
Live from NYPL - The Land We’re On: Living Lenapehoking
The Met - Committing to the Beauty of Lenape Art
The Lenape diaspora, once on the brink of erasure, championed in New York exhibition.
Article by Gabriella Angeleti
January 24, 2022
The Met - Committing to the Beauty of Lenape Art
The Met - Committing to the Beauty of Lenape Art
The Met - Committing to the Beauty of Lenape Art
How Joe Baker reclaimed a historic artform in order to assert his Lenape identity.
Article by Benjamin Korman
November 23, 2021
Urban Omnibus - Home in Lenapehoking
The Met - Committing to the Beauty of Lenape Art
Urban Omnibus - Home in Lenapehoking
An interview with Joe Baker and Hadrien Coumans about their collaboration with BKSK Architects in building the turtle shell above the former Tammany Hall, an intention to build civic understanding of people and place in Lenapehoking.
February 6, 2020
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Nora Thompson Dean: Lenape Teacher and Herbalist
Exhibition June 6 through September 17, 2023
"An exhibition in the Rotunda of the 1906 Library and an installation in the Morgan Garden, developed collaboratively with the Lenape Center and Hudson Valley Farm Hub, honors Nora Thompson Dean (1907–1984), a Lenape teacher and herbalist who worked to preserve Lenape culture. Born and raised in Oklahoma, Dean made multiple influential visits to Lenapehoking, the ancestral lands of the Lenape (an area that now encompasses New Jersey and sections of New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Connecticut). The exhibition, incorporating letters, photographs, and printed materials, sheds light on different aspects of Nora Thompson Dean's life and teaching. It is complemented by an installation of plants important to the Lenape in the Morgan Garden, including corn, squash, and beans.
This exhibition and garden installation is organized by the Morgan Library & Museum in collaboration with The Lenape Center and the Hudson Valley Farm Hub. It is made possible by the Sherman Fairchild Fund for Exhibitions."
