The Prospect Park Alliance and the Éenda-Lŭnaapeewáhkiing Collective are bringing Eelunaapéewi Ehaptoonáakanal: Voices of Lunáapeew/Lenape to Lefferts Historic House from July 12 through November 30, 2025.
The exhibit features video interviews with Lunáapeew/Lenape knowledge-keepers and culture bearers sharing their relationships to their ancestral homelands and their ongoing resilience despite centuries of displacement.
"We are a nation who has been scattered to the winds because of the greed of not just the Dutch, but also the English after that and so forth, who chased us and massacred us for our land,” said George Stonefish, co-founder, Éenda-Lŭnaapeewáhkiing Collective and ReImagine Lefferts advisor.
The Éenda-Lŭnaapeewáhkiing Collective is a partnership among Delaware, Munsee-Delaware, Lenni-Lenape, Lenape and Lunáapeew communities working to unite displaced members of the nation across Turtle Island through shared projects and storytelling.
"We are honored to join our partners at the Éenda-Lŭnaapeewáhkiing Collective to share with our community the history, resistance and resilience of the Indigenous people of Lenapehoking, as well as the enduring art, culture and stories of the Lenapehoking today," said Morgan Monaco, Prospect Park Alliance President.
Visitors are invited to the opening celebration on Saturday, July 12, from 2:00pm to 5:00pm. The exhibit is free but click here to RSVP.
This installation is part of the ReImagine Lefferts initiative, which is transforming the historic house into a space that explores the lives and resistance of the Indigenous people of Lenapehoking, the unceded ancestral lands that include Brooklyn and the Africans enslaved by the Lefferts family.
As part of this broader effort, the Alliance will also host the Second United Lenape/Lunáapeew Nations Pow Wow on September 13 and 14, 2025, at the LeFrak Center at Lakeside. The event revives a Brooklyn tradition, as the park last hosted formal Pow Wows between 1916 and 1972.
The Pow Wow will be a celebration of life and culture featuring drumming, dancing, singing, art, crafts and foods. It’s a chance for Lenape/Lunáapeew communities to reconnect with their homelands and for Brooklynites of all backgrounds to experience the traditions of the region’s original stewards.
