LibGuides: Native American Law: The Lenape & Lenapehoking

Lenapehoking: An Anthology & Video of Event: The Land We're On: Living Lenapehoking

Lenapehoking: An Anthology by Joe Baker, Hadrien Coumans & Joel Whitney, editors
Call Number: PS508.I5 L46 2022 (2 copies available in BLS Library's Main collection)
Publication Date: 2022

On p. 14 of the Introduction, Joe Baker (Co-Founder/Executive Director of Lenape Center) states: “This anthology of essays and interviews features leading Indigenous scholars, culture bearers, and artists offering important new scholarship and knowledge of Lenape culture and history that is not readily available to the general public.”

Contents:
- Introduction to Lenapehoking / Joe Baker
- Feather Cape Returns / Rebecca Haff Lowry
- Myth of the Purchase of Manhattan / Joe Baker, Hadrien Coumans & Chelsea Kimura
- Forced Removals of Lenape: The Original People / Curtis Zunigha
- Homecoming / Rebecca Haff Lowry
- Native Fruit Culture / Sam Van Aken
- The Singing Woods: An Interview with Brent Michael Davids / by Dr. Jessica Bissett Perea
- Lenapehoking Is Right Where I Am / Brent Michael Davids
- Not the Last of the Mohicans: Forced Migration of the Stockbridge Munsee from New York to Wisconsin / Heather Bruegl
- A Portfolio / David Haff
- Plant Medicine / Rebecca Haff Lowry
- After Nora: On Preserving the Lenape Language: An Interview with Jim Rementer / by Margie Cook
- The Spiritual World of the Lenape, or Delaware, Indians / Nora Thompson Dean
- Lenapehoking & the Invaders' Claim of the Right to Domination / Steven Newcomb
- On the Return of Lenape Seeds to Lenapehoking / K. Greene
- Continuance / Rebecca Haff Lowry
- MMIP-Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women/Persons / Nichusak ("My Women Friends") Working Group
- The Seal of Lenapehoking / Rebecca Haff Lowry
Accessibility: Many additional copies of Lenapehoking: An Anthology are available through Brooklyn Public Library and through New York Public Library.

Below is a link to a video of a "Live from NYPL" event held on March 6, 2023 at which contributors to Lenapehoking: An Anthology "explore[d] the personal journeys of people seeking welcome in their ancestral homeland while pushing back against their erasure."

On the Turtle's Back: Stories the Lenape Told Their Grandchildren

On the Turtle's Back: Stories the Lenape Told Their Grandchildren (CERES: Rutgers Studies in History) by Camilla Townsend & Nicky Kay Michael
Publication Date: 2023
09/30/2024: Ordered by BLS Library.
Excerpt from publisher's book description: "On the Turtle’s Back is the first collection of Lenape folklore, originally compiled by anthropologist M. R. Harrington over a century ago but never published until now. In it, the Delaware share their cherished tales about the world’s creation, epic heroes, and ordinary human foibles. It features stories told to Harrington by two Lenape couples, Julius and Minnie Fouts and Charles and Susan Elkhair, who sought to officially record their legends before their language and cultural traditions died out. More recent interviews with Lenape elders are also included, as their reflections on hearing these stories as children speak to the status of the tribe and its culture today. Together, they welcome you into their rich and wondrous imaginative world."

Theater: MANAHATTA

MANAHATTA by Mary Kathryn Nagle. Directed by Laurie Woolery.
Location was: Anspacher Theater, The Public Theater,
425 Lafayette Street (at Astor Place), New York, NY
Dates were: Nov. 16 - Dec. 23, 2023
Description: "A gripping journey from the fur trade of the 1600s to the stock trade of today, Mary Kathryn Nagle's MANAHATTA tells the story of Jane Snake, a brilliant young Native woman with a Stanford MBA. Jane reconnects with her ancestral Lenape homeland, known as Manahatta, when she moves from Oklahoma to New York for a banking job just before the 2008 financial meltdown. Jane’s struggle to reconcile her new life with the expectations and traditions of her family and Nation are powerfully interwoven with the heartbreaking history of the Delaware Nation's expulsion from their land. Both old and new Manahatta converge in a lesson about the dangers of living in a society where there’s no such thing as enough."

Publicly Accessible Sources Cited in "Myth of the Purchase of Manhattan" in Lenapehoking: An Anthology

Article:

Colleen Connolly, The True Native New Yorkers Can Never Truly Reclaim Their Homeland, Smithsonian Magazine (Oct. 5, 2018)

Book:

New York City in Indian Posession by Reginald Pelham Bolton
Publication Date: Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, 1920

Catalog:

Charles Gehring, ed., A Guide to Dutch Manuscripts Relating to New Netherland in United States Repositories
Originally compiled in 1977-1978 & updated in 2010-2012.

Letter:

Peter Schagen, Peter Schagen Letter (1626)
The author, Peter Schaghen, was the representative of the States General in the Assembly of the Nineteen of the West India Company.

Memoir Available Through BLS Library

Denise Low, Ph.D., is a former Poet Laureate of Kansas, a founding board member of Indigenous Native Poets, and former Dean of Humanities and Arts at Haskell Indian Nations University.

The Turtle's Beating Heart: One Family's Story of Lenape Survival by Denise Low
Publication Date: 2017
In SARA catalog record, click: ACCESS ONLINE VERSION - (EBSCO). Remote access requires implementation of the BLS proxy server instructions for 1 web browser. Unlimited copies available.
Excerpt from the University of Nebraska Press book description: "This memoir traces the author’s family’s Delaware (Munsee and Lenape) history, focusing on her grandfather, her mother, and her own experiences. She articulates a Native identity that survives, despite assimilationist policies of the government."