AGENCY TESTIMONY
Initial collaboration with the Lenape Center
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Joel Whitney describes the beginning of Brooklyn Public Library's collaboration with the Lenape Center, emphasizing the importance of the Lenape as the original inhabitants of New York City.
- BPL staff met with Joe Baker, Adrian Kumans, Brent Michael Davis, and Curtis Zuniga of the Lenape Center
- The collaboration began with a simple question: 'What do you need?'
- This initial conversation led to a multiyear and multidisciplinary partnership affecting many facets of BPL
Joel Whitney
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The Lenape are, of course, the original inhabitants of the land we are meeting on today.
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4 years ago, my colleagues and I met with Joe Baker, Adrian Kumans, Brent Michael Davis, and Curtis Zuniga of the Lenape Center and asked a simple question.
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What do you need?
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Their answer launched an ongoing multiyear and multidisciplinary collaboration that has touched on so many facets of BPL.
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Within 2 years of that conversation, we opened Lenape Hocking, the first Lenape curated exhibition of Lenape cultural arts in the city of New York.