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BLS Library Digital Book Displays: Native American Heritage Month Display (Nov. 2024)

Native American Heritage Month 2024: Programs on Creating a Living Land Acknowledgment that BLS Held with the Lenape Center, Upcoming Nov. 21 BLS Program & Research Guide that BLS Librarians Created

  • The website of Lenape Center describes Lenapehoking as "homeland of the Lenape."  Lenapehoking includes the land on which our school currently stands.  See: Brooklyn Law School, The Land We’re On: The Lenape Legacy.  Lenape Center is a nonprofit organization that states it is "[c]ontinuing Lenapehoking through community, culture and the arts" and "[w]orking towards the creation of a cultural center."  Lenape Center's work includes curating exhibitions (including the virtual exhibit Lenapehoking), developing educational programs, and creating Lenapehoking: An Anthology. 
  • Thursday, November 21, 2024 in the Student Lounge: Brooklyn Law School will host a special program to celebrate Native American Heritage Month and to share the ongoing efforts of Brooklyn Law School toward a living land acknowledgment:

  • BLS librarians and Library Fellows developed this research guide to support the BLS seminar: Native American Law.  Tribal Law and Policy Specialist and Adjunct Professor of Law Precious Benally will teach this course in spring 2025.  Professor Benally is a citizen of the Diné Nation from Northern New Mexico.  BLS librarians thank Professor Benally, Professor Christopher Beauchamp, Professor Susan Herman, members of the BLS Lenapehoking Working Group and members of the BLS Indigenous Rights Advocacy Group for their resource recommendations. 

Native American Heritage Month 2024: Explore BLS Library's Resources

Because This Land Is Who We Are: Indigenous Practices of Environmental Repossession (Bloomsbury open access ebook, 2024)

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (1970)

By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land (2024)

Cherokee Civil Warrior: Chief John Ross and the Struggle for Tribal Sovereignty (2023)

Cohen's Handbook of Federal Indian Law (in Lexis+, c2024)

Lenapehoking: An Anthology + Video of 2023 Event: The Land We're On: Living Lenapehoking:

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."

Events in the New York Metropolitan Area

New York Public Library's free events for Native American Heritage Month.