"This Indigenous Peoples Day, Prospect Park is honoring the history and resilience of the land's first inhabitants through a powerful blend of art, storytelling and celebration in Brooklyn. The Prospect Park Alliance and the Éenda-Lŭnaapeewáhkiing Collective (EL Collective) have joined forces to present "Eelunaapéewi Ehaptoonáakanal: Voices of Lunáapeew/Lenape," a new video exhibition at the Lefferts Historic House running through Nov. 30. The exhibit, part of the ReImagine Lefferts initiative, features "video interviews with Lunáapeew/Lenape knowledge-keepers and culture bearers about their relationships to their ancestral homelands.""
""We are a nation who has been scattered to the winds because of the greed of not just the Dutch, but also the English after that and so forth, who chased us and massacred us for out land," he said. "I want people to understand who the Lenape were and are, and the things we've given to modern culture that aren't acknowledged.""
Prospect Park and the Éenda-Lŭnaapeewáhkiing Collective present a video exhibition at the Lefferts Historic House through Nov. 30 featuring interviews with Lunáapeew/Lenape knowledge-keepers and culture bearers. The exhibit is part of the ReImagine Lefferts initiative and aims to increase public understanding of the Lenape and their cultural contributions. The exhibition honors the Lunáapeew/Lenape, whose name means "the ones who came from thought," and identifies Lenape ancestral homelands as Lenapehoking, encompassing Brooklyn and surrounding areas. The presentation emphasizes deep spiritual connections to the land, centuries of displacement and colonization, and ongoing resistance, resilience, art, culture, and storytelling of Lenapehoking today.
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