Akuy Eenda Maawehlaang: The Place Where People Gather
By Brooklyn Demme
This is a film about the Ramapough Lenape Nation, and their homeland struggle in Mahwah, NJ.
https://youtu.be/mPecWNfKexg
Prior to European colonization, the Ramapough Lenape Nation welcomed neighboring peoples from across the region to...
https://youtu.be/Q6L5BGwvFWA
The Truth about Black History Month and Startling Revelations
Cozmo El
Negro History Week (1926)
The precursor to Black History Month was created in 1926 in the United States, when historian Carter G. Woodson and the Association for the Study of Negro...
https://youtu.be/wzXQoZ6pE-M
I’m Not the Indian You Had in Mind
A video exploration offering insight as to how First Nations people today are changing old ideas and empowering themselves in the greater community.
Produced with a grant awarded by bravoFACT (Foundation to Assist Canadian Talent),...
https://youtu.be/MB2LxO8H4CQ
MEET THE ROCKS........WE ARE THE MUNSEE PEOPLE
There are 7 layers of Lenape culture underneath New York City,
usually referred to as......
1. ORIENT PHASE
2. SEBONAC PHASE
3. FOX CREEK PHASE
4. MINISINK PHASE
5. BOWMAN PHASE
6.CLASON POINT PHASE
7. COLONIAL PHASE
The Mohican developed out of...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAzAiyh3rjE&t=1s
In lower Manhattan, on what will now be known as Native American Heritage Day, November 27, 2009, in front of the Museum of the American Indian,...
How to apply for consultative status with ECOSOC?
Basic Facts about ECOSOC Status
Consultative status provides NGOs with access to not only ECOSOC, but also to its many subsidiary bodies, to the various human rights mechanisms of the United Nations,...
Devastation of a tribal community....
In 1964 the Ford Motor Corporation had purchased nearly 900 acres of land within the Ramapo Mountains. This land was the former site of the Ringwood mines complex, that provided iron for every war, from...
Nearly 400 years after the alleged “sale of Manhattan,” some Lenape strive to reawaken their cultural heritage on the islands where their ancestors thrived
https://www.facebook.com/turtlegangnyc/videos/300338010451779/
A monument in lower Manhattan commemorates the "sale" of Lenape lands to the Dutch. (Colleen Connolly)
By Colleen Connolly
SMITHSONIAN.COM
OCTOBER...
11/23/2016 01:28 pm ET Updated Nov 25, 2016
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Abraham Lincoln, Esq. (Later the 16th President of the United States)
“My client is not a Negro, though it is a crime to be a Negro” Abraham Lincoln, Esq., 1855
Family feuds can get ugly....
https://youtu.be/64_4Btutc34
Sun Ra Arkestra's Marshall Allen & Danny Thompson Lecture (Montréal 2016) | Red Bull Music Academy
Published on Nov 1, 2016
Marshall Allen is the third man to helm the Sun Ra Arkestra. The 92-year-old alto saxophonist joined the group in...