#indigenous-peoples-day

#indigenous-peoples-day

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."

Every year, my tribe-the Aquinnah Wampanoag-celebrates Cranberry Day on the second Tuesday in October. It's one of our most important gatherings, when the tribe comes together to pick wild cranberries in the bogs by the beach. Starting early in the morning, we spread out across the squelchy bogs, steadily filling buckets and baskets with the firm, red berries. I grew up away from our homelands on Martha's Vineyard, but my family always made a trip back to the island for Cranberry Day.

NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch's fact-free crackdown on e-bikes continues - and the agency has finally released some of the numbers to amNY (believe me, we've been asking). No surprise: The Upper East Side, where Tisch's mother has made her opinion well known, leads in enforcement. The amNY editorial board obviously read Streetsblog, commissioning an op-ed from two Council members and a city labor leader to support a Council bill to rein in Amazon that we wrote about last month.

Come celebrate Indigenous Peoples' Day with us! Join the fun on Saturday, October 11 from 12pm through 3pm, at our Fall Family Day open house event.