Opening Event: Voices of Lunáapeew/Lenape
Join Prospect Park Alliance and the Éenda-Lŭnaapeewáhkiing Collective for an opening reception of Eelunaapéewi Ehaptoonáakanal: Voices of Lunáapeew/Lenape, a video exhibit at Lefferts Historic House in Prospect Park celebrating 400 years of Indigenous resilience. Running through November 30, 2025, the exhibit features video interviews with Lunáapeew/Lenape knowledge-keepers and culture bearers and learn about their relationships to their ancestral homelands.
The exhibition is part of the Alliance’s ReImagine Lefferts initiative, which is transforming the museum to explore the lives, resistance and resilience of the Indigenous people of Lenapehoking, whose unceded ancestral lands the park and house rests upon, and Africans who were enslaved by the Lefferts family.
The EL Collective works to bring together Lunáapeew/Lenape communities who have been displaced across Turtle Island (North America). In addition to the exhibit, the Alliance, EL Collective and the American-Indian House will be hosting the Second United Lenape/Lunáapeew Nations Pow Wow at the LeFrak Center at Lakeside in Prospect Park on September 13 and 14, 2025.
Photo Caption (l to r): Chief Urie Ridgeway, Leadership, Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation; Cory Ridgeway, Director, EL Collective; Brent Stonefish, Co-Founder, EL Collective; George Stonefish, Co-Founder, EL Collective.