Whose land are you on? Every place we occupy or visit was once the home of people who most likely didn’t leave willingly. Pick three locations that are important to you – maybe where you were born, where you now live, your favorite vacation destination – and find out who originally lived there. Choose one or two interesting facts about the original inhabitants to share with Moorestown Meeting’s Anti-Racism Committee and F/friends from anywhere. Perhaps reorienting ourselves to the Indigenous experience will provide us with a deeper appreciation of the land where we dwell. (You can visit Native-Land.ca for a quick start for your research). Click here or call 646-558-8656 and enter meeting ID 873 3565 8140 and bring your research results and revelations to the conversation.
Native American
The Lenni-Lenape People are Still Here!
If you saw Trinity Norwood walking down the street, you might not realize that she is a Native American, a member of the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation in New Jersey that many of us believed had been driven from this area long ago. But Trinity is here, her family, friends and tribal community are here, and they have a lot to tell us about their struggles to survive through history, to be respected as holders of deep cultural traditions, and to be recognized by us and our state governments as citizens of proud indigenous nations.
Trinity Norwood will speak to Swarthmore Meeting and the wider community on these topics and more on Tuesday November 9 from 7-8:30pm via Zoom. Contact Lynne Piersol, lhpiersol@gmail.com for the Zoom link.
Broadcast of Must See Documentary Dawnland 11-5-18 @ 10 PBS
Greetings from the Indian Committee
We want you to be aware of on MONDAY NOVEMBER 5th 10PM PBS will broadcast DAWNLAND
Our friends Wayne Newell and Denise Altvater (AFSC WABANAKI) are among those featured. See link below.
Thanks to Elizabeth Koopman
About the Film
They were forced to assimilate into white society: children ripped away from their families, depriving them of their culture and erasing their identities. Can reconciliation help heal the scars from childhoods lost? Dawnland is the untold story of Indigenous child removal in the US through the nation’s first-ever government-endorsed truth and reconciliation commission, which investigated the devastating impact of Maine’s child welfare practices on the Wabanaki people.
PS Learn the Lenape Language online! http://talk-lenape.org/getting-started