Lenape Curriculum & Anthology

By The Red Hook WaterStories team
PortSide NewYork acknowledges that we are on land and waterways that are the homeland of the Lenape, a place they call "Lenapehoking."  The Lenape were displaced by European settlers and forced to move as a group multiple times to several US states far from here. Lenapehoking encompasses all of NYC and a large part of downstate NYS, all of New Jersey, part of western Connecticut and of eastern Pennsylvania.

The Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) and the Lenape Center developed a relationship after the BPL contacted them about creating a land acknowledgement.  Out of this relationship, at the request of the Lenape Center came the book Lenapehoking: An Anthology and the school curriculum based on that work created with the Teachers College, Columbia University. There was also an exhibit at the library; you can see videos and panels of it here.

The Lenape Center has made the curriculum freely available, and we share it below. The Lenape Center can be contacted directly via their website.

PortSide learned about the anthology and curriculum at an event at the BPL on November 18, 2024. A video of the event explains the relationships, history and motives behind the creation of the curriculum and anthology. See that here.

PreK-2nd Grade


3rd-5th Grade

6th-8th Grade

9th-12th Grade

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Sources:

  • Michelle Montalbano, A (Not So) Brief History of Red Hook, The Brooklyn Public Library blog, 2019 blog 

    Edward Manning Ruttenber, Footprints of the Red Men
    Indian geographical names in the valley of Hudson's river, the valley of the Mohawk, and on the Delaware: their location and the probable meaning of some of them,     1906. https://ia800305.us.archive.org/4/items/footprintsofredm00rutt/footprintsofredm00rutt.pdf p17

    Wm. Wallace Tooker, Indian Names of Places in Brooklyn. Francis P. Harper, NY 1901

    Wallace W. Tooker, The Indian Place-names On Long Island And Islands Adjacent, With Their Probable Significations, 1911.

Published on Nov 20, 2024. Last updated on Nov 27, 2024.

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