Curated Bibliographies

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ISSN 1710-4742
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Includes: Central American Indian, Cherokee, Choctaw, Cree, Dakota, Delaware, Hawaiian, Iroquoian, Mayan languages, Mohawk, Nahuatl, Navajo, Ojibwa, Zapotec

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MARCH 28, 2022 Reverend Dr. John R. Norwood - Founding Pastor of Ujima Village Christian Church, Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Councilman and Judge, and government liaison for the Confederation of Sovereign Nanticoke-Lenape Tribes - explores the tribal saga of New Jersey's Nanticoke and Lenape Indians. Rev. Norwood will discuss tribal history and culture and current sovereignty, challenges, and misconceptions. YouTube link

The Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums is dedicated to preserving and advancing the language, history, culture, and lifeways of indigenous peoples.

This digital archival experience contains historical photographs from the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). Newly digitized BIA photographs will be added to this guide as they are added to the National Archives Catalog.

The Center for Native American and Indigenous Research promotes innovative uses of the American Philosophical Society Library’s collections that benefit indigenous communities and academic scholarship.

Available for downloading and streaming. Running time: 11 minutes 14 seconds. Dutch Neck is an area of nearby West Windsor, New Jersey.

A "non-denominational outreach in partnership with the Tribal Christian Prayer Circle Ministry of the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation. The site provides resources for Christian worship, witness, and spiritual formation in addition to guidance for non-Natives on interacting with American Indian people, groups, and governments."

Negiel Bigpond, and Sam Brownback. “For Native Peoples, an Apology Never Spoken Is No Apology at All.” Washington Post, The, July 7, 2021. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=shib&db=bwh&AN=wapo.09e2c154-deaf-11eb-b507-697762d090dd&site=ehost-live.

Exhibition at the Library Company of Philadelphia November 11, 2019 – April 10, 2020; "During the Paxton massacres of 1763, a mob of white settlers, so-called “Paxton Boys” murdered 20 unarmed Conestoga People in a genocidal campaign that reshaped Pennsylvania settlement politics. Ghost River: The Fall and Rise of the Conestoga reimagines this difficult history through an educational graphic novel that introduces new interpreters and new bodies of evidence to highlight the Indigenous victims and their kin." Follow the link for more information, including a link to a digital edition of the exhibit.

Mujerista Symposium - Spring 2022; March 31, 2022. Dr. Cecilia Titizano is Bolivian of Aymara descent. She holds a PhD in philosophical theology from the Graduate Theological Union (GTU) in Berkeley, California. For many years, Titizano has worked in the area of international development, among Quechua and Aymara communities. She is part-time faculty in the Theology and Religious Studies Department at the University of San Francisco, where she teaches Indigenous Cosmologies and Theologies and Ethics in the Indigenous Spiritual Traditions. Titizano serves in Memoria Indígena as an advisory board member and is part of the Comunidad de Sabias y Teólogas Indígenas del Abya Yala (COSTIAY). Hosted by the Princeton Theological Seminary Office of Multicultural Relations and En Conjunto

Dissertation submitted by JR Norwood to the North-West University for the Doctor of Philosophy degree in Missiology (Theology of Missions), May 2015

The land on which Princeton Theological Seminary stands is part of the ancient homeland and unceded traditional territory of the Lenape people. Learn more about the history of the Lenape people in this report by Princeton University.

The Indigenous Digital Archive is a project of the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture in collaboration with the New Mexico State Library Tribal Libraries Program and the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center.

"The Lenni Lenape consisted of three main dialect clans, whose bloodlines were based on matrilineal descent: the Munsee ("People of the Stony Country") in the north, the Unalachtigo ("People Who Live Near the Ocean") in the south, and the Unami ("People Down River") in the center of the tribe's overall territory. It was the Unami (originally pronounced Wu-nàu mee) that resided in what would become West Windsor."

JANUARY 24 2022 The second of our "Year 225" lecture series! Dr. Richard Veit (Interim Dean of Monmouth University's School Of Humanities And Social Sciences) covers the millennia-long history of West Windsor's original residents - the indigenous Lenni Lenape! Lecture to be followed by a Question/Answer session. YouTube link

The official dictionary of Lenape - the language of the Delaware Tribe. This website is an online learning tool designed to support Lenape language education through its expansive dictionary and language lessons. Its primary function is translating words, sentences, and phrases from English to Lenape or vice versa.

Rev. Dr. Randy Woodley (Cherokee) in conversation with Emily Ling

"NAIITS (formerly North American Institute for Indigenous Theological Studies) is one of two divisions of Indigenous Pathways, a non-sectarian organization dedicated to working together with the Indigenous community to develop and articulate Indigenous perspectives in theology and practice."

This website is dedicated to the Ongoing History and Living Culture of the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape People. The Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape People (also known as Nanticoke Lenape Indians) are a tribal confederation of the core families of the Nanticoke and Lenni-Lenape whose homelands have been in Southern New Jersey and the Delmarva Peninsula from ancient times.

"Building on the collaborative, community-engaged work of the American Philosophical Society’s Center for Native American and Indigenous Research (CNAIR), the APS Library & Museum launched The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Native American Scholars Initiative (NASI) in 2016 to foster the development of the next generation of Indigenous and allied students and scholars." (Description from a blog post by Adrianna Link, February 3, 2020, https://www.amphilsoc.org/blog/cfp-relationships-reciprocity-and-responsibilities-indigenous-studies-archives-and-beyond)

Provides educators and students with new perspectives on Native American history and cultures.

November is National American Indian Heritage Month. The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum join in paying tribute to the rich ancestry and traditions of Native Americans.

Exhibitions include "Our Universes: Traditional Knowledge Shapes Our World" (September 21, 2004–Late 2021) and "Nation to Nation: Treaties Between the United States and American Indian Nations" (September 21, 2014–2021) among several others

Exhibitions include "Stretching the Canvas: Eight Decades of Native Painting" (November 16, 2019–Fall 2021) and Infinity of Nations: Art and History in the Collections of the National Museum of the American Indian, among others

Princeton University’s Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative (NAISIP) fosters a cross-disciplinary dialogue among faculty, students, staff, and community members whose research and teaching interests focus on Indigenous peoples.

The exhibit Native Narratives: The Representation of Native Americans in Public Broadcasting explores how Native American peoples and cultures have been represented both in non-Native-produced and Native-created public broadcasting programs in the American Archive of Public Broadcasting.

There are three state recognized tribes in NJ: the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribe, the Powhatan Renape Tribe and the Ramapough Lenape Indian Nation. The Commission serves as a liaison among the tribes and the State and Federal governments. It is empowered to develop programs and projects to further understanding of New Jersey's American Indian history and culture.

Saturday, October 13, 2018 - Sunday, January 6, 2019 at the Princeton University Art Museum. "This sweeping exhibition [engaged] a wide range of genres and historical contexts—from colonial furniture to the art of Jeffersonian natural science, from Hudson River landscape painting to Native American basketry..."

From the National Museum of the American Indian. Includes: 11/11 - National Native American Veterans Memorial Opening; 11/12 - Conversation with Why We Serve Co-Author Alexandra Harris; 11/18-11/27 - Native Cinema Showcase; 11/19 - Youth in Action: Conversations about Our Future | Indigenous Food Sovereignty; 12/4-12/6 - Healing through Native Creativity; 12/17 - Youth in Action: Conversations about Our Future | (Re)Telling the American Story

By Ximena Conde, October 14, 2019

The Ramapo Munsee Lenape Nation is one of three state recognized tribal nations in New Jersey.

IllumiNative is a non-profit organization whose "mission is to build power for Native peoples by amplifying contemporary Native voices, stories, and issues to advance justice, equity, and self-determination."

The guide "Tribal Nations and the United States: An Introduction" developed by the National Congress of American Indians seeks to provide a basic overview of the history and underlying principles of tribal governance.

"The Deloria Library research materials include over 40,000 volumes of books, periodicals, microfilm, and media in the main collection; a small, but growing rare book section; Native American Artist Files; and, ephemera. The Library collections cover the broad range of topics and disciplines related to the histories, cultures, arts, and contemporary issues of Native American and Indigenous peoples in the Western Hemisphere. Strengths in the collection are tribal histories, biographies, traditional and modern art, language and literature – including children and young adult materials, Native knowledge, and collections care."

This presentation on the history of the Indigenous People of New Jersey was presented by Rev. Dr. J.R. Norwood Jr. for our patrons on November 4, 2021

Executive Director, Richard A. Grounds, Ph.D. Princeton Theological Seminary, 1995