We are on the traditional Lands of the Munsee Lenape people.

 

As a land based organization,

 

City Green acknowledges the Munsee Lenape as the original occupants and stewards of this land and the forced removal and erasure due to violent colonial tactics. 

 

The Munsee Lenape are a band of Lenni Lenape Native Americans, who stewarded this land for generations before many of their people were forcibly removed westward to Oklahoma and Wisconsin in the 1800’s. Relatives of the Munsee Lenape Nation, known as the Ramapough Indians, a state recognized tribe, are still here today on their ancestral lands, and still active in “preserving and restoring the economic, social, cultural, sacred and environmental assets of the Ramapough Munsee ancestral lands.” 

 

We recognize the sovereign nations of the Lenape diaspora elsewhere in present day North America, as well as other Indigenous individuals and communities now residing in New Jersey. 

 

We acknowledge Lenape people past, present and future. 

 

As stewards and occupiers of this land,

We respectfully acknowledge the Land and the Indigenous people who historically inhabited this Land for hundreds of thousands of years. We recognize the sovereign nations of the Lenape diaspora elsewhere in North America, as well as other Indigenous individuals and communities now residing in New Jersey. And we acknowledge the land itself–the soil, wildlife, and ecosystem that we work alongside.

 

We honor the land we steward.

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What is a land acknowledgment?

 

“Land acknowledgment is a traditional custom that dates back centuries in many Native nations and communities. Today, land acknowledgments are used by Native Peoples and non-Natives to recognize Indigenous Peoples who are the original stewards of the lands on which we now live.”

 

Learn more:

Additional information on the Ramapough Munsee Community 

About – Munsee Three Sisters Medicinal Farm 

Additional information on the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians

NDN COLLECTIVE “is an Indigenous-led organization dedicated to building Indigenous power.”

Native Land Map “is an app to help map Indigenous territories, treaties, and languages."

LANDBACK “is a movement that has existed for generations with a long legacy of organizing and sacrifice to get Indigenous Lands back into Indigenous hands.”

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