Consider the following show an acknowledgement of sorts, of land, but also more importantly of people.

For the foundations of 400 years of New York City history

were built upon the homeland of the Lene-Lenape,

the tribal stewards of a vast natural area stretching from eastern Pennsylvania to western Long Island.

The displacement of native people in North America to accommodate the expansion of white settler colonists is a story that plays

out throughout the course of American history into the 19th century. But the Lenape were among the first in the Northeast to be displaced.

And by the late 18th century, their way of life had practically vanished upon the island which would be known by some

distorted vestige of an old Lenape name, Manahatta or Manhattan.

But the Lenape did not disappear.

Through generations of great hardship, they have persevered.

In today's show, we will be joined by two guests who are working to keep Lenape culture and language alive throughout North America and including here on the streets of New York itself.

Ross Perlin, co-director of the Endangered Language Alliance?

This word referred to probably a very particular portion,

maybe even just a stand of trees at the southern tip of the whole island we now call Manhattan.

And Joe Baker, the executive director of the Lenape Center.

It is where you move here on the island, you are moving in Lenape territory.

The Bowery Boys episode 432, the Lenape Nation, past, present, and future.

Hi there, welcome to the Barry Boys. This is Greg Young.

And this is Tom Myers. And today we have a different type of show for you. We could even say a boundary breaking show Greg.

Yes, we are in fact going to break or more appropriately erase some of the boundaries in which we typically confine ourselves here on the

podcast because today's subject is the Lenape Nation or rather Lenape Hoking, which is translated as the homeland of the Lenape or

Lonepe, being the indigenous people who lived in this area before the arrival of

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