Lenapehoking at Brooklyn Public Library

Lenape Center Executive Director and Co-Founder, Joe Baker, talks about the bean tapestry on display in the Lenapehoking exhibit. Lenape Center partnered two years ago with Farm Hub in the upper Hudson Valley for a seed rematriation program that would return ancestral Lenape seeds to their native soil. The results of this partnership have been nothing short of miraculous. Together we have created a way of return for seeds that were displaced by hundreds of years of forced removal. We have witnessed the power and generosity of the seeds and how each Spring they through song and prayer are awakened and find expression in soil of Lenapehoking. Lenape Center is grateful for the ongoing care and nurturance provided by Farm Hub and their workers.