As a land based organization, …

 

City Green acknowledges the Muness Lenape as the original occupants and stewards of this land and the forced removal and erasure due to violent colonial tactics. 

 

The Munsee Lenape are a band of Lenni Lenape Native Americans, who stewarded this land for generations before many of their people were forcibly removed westward to Oklahoma and Wisconsin in the 1800’s. Relatives of the Munsee Lenape Nation, known as the Ramapough Indians, a state recognized tribe, are still here today on their ancestral lands, and still active in “preserving and restoring the economic, social, cultural, sacred and environmental assets of the Ramapough Munsee ancestral lands.” 

 

We recognize the sovereign nations of the Lenape diaspora elsewhere in present day North America, as well as other Indigenous individuals and communities now residing in New Jersey.

 

We acknowledge Lenape people past, present and future. 
 

We honor the land we steward.

 

Additional information on the Ramapough Munsee Community 

About – Munsee Three Sisters Medicinal Farm 

Additional information on the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians

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