A Lenape Creation Story launches the Down to Earth Festival
Instead of just beginning by acknowledging Manhattan as the homeland of the Lenape, the way most theater companies do these days, the Eagle Project made their whole show about it. A member of  the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape tribal nation named Opalanietet began first with a Lenape ritual in front of Shorakkopoch Rock in Inwood Park. "According to...