On November 11, join the Holland Society at the Museum of the City of New York for their newly opened exhibit Halumii Ktapihna: Lenape Legacies and Futures. Dive into the lasting presence and living cultures of the Lenape/Lunáapeew, the original people of Lenapehoking/Lunaapeewáhkiing, today known as New York City. Informed by their identity and cultural ways of life, the Lenape/Lunáapeew communities have, for over 12,000 years, transformed this area through dynamic governance, trade practices, and their ties to land and water. Through generations of resilience, the Lenape/Lunáapeew people have maintained their traditions despite the erasures they have faced. 

The exhibit features various voices from the Lenape/Lunáapeew as well as art and objects not often shown to the public, not just the arch of ancient origins and the disruption of colonization, but also today’s movement for cultural renewal. As topics around land stewardship, language revitalization, and the impacts of removal surface, the museum asks the question: What does it mean to acknowledge the original stewards of this place, and how can we imagine a more just and connected future together?

Developed in partnership with the Éenda-Lŭnaapeewáhkiing (Land of the Lenape) Collective and Lenape/Lunáapeew community advisors, the exhibit invites listening and learning as we reflect on the past, present, and future of the Lenape/Lunáapeew.