Q&A
Content creation and partnerships for authentic Lenape storytelling
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Representatives from Brooklyn Public Library discuss their efforts in content creation and partnerships to tell authentic Lenape stories, addressing the lack of accurate materials available.
- Brooklyn Public Library has become a content creator due to the lack of authentic, accurate materials about Lenape history
- They are developing an anthology in partnership with the Lenape Center
- A curriculum based on the anthology is being tested for K-12 New York City public schools
- Partnerships with organizations and marketing efforts are crucial for spreading awareness of this long-erased history
Joel Whitney
1:09:19
Yeah.
1:09:19
And I'll add that, you know, because of the lack of, materials that felt accurate, authentic, and told through a Lenape lens, we've become content creators.
1:09:31
So for us, getting the word out to New Yorkers who've had this history way too long erased.
1:09:39
In a perverse way, it's become an opportunity because almost everything you can do to tell the authentic story of Lenape people in New York City feels like a first.
1:09:49
So we've become content creators with the anthology, obviously, with the partnership with the Lenape Center at the center of that, but also partnerships with other organizations around New York to get the word out, including a professor at Teachers College, Rachel Talbert, who's developing this as a test, curriculum for K through 12th grade New York City public schools developing this anthology into a curriculum that's being tested now as we speak.
1:10:15
So getting the word out is always a struggle in New York City.
1:10:19
There's a lot going on.
1:10:20
And, our marketing team does an incredible job.
1:10:23
We've got one newsletter that goes to, I think, 500,000 or so subscribers.
1:10:29
But it's a fight to get this longer race story told, and so we do look to partnerships, and we appreciate the hearing that we're getting today.
Carlina Rivera
1:10:39
Thank you.
