Documenting Living Culture - Ramapough Lenape Split Rock Sweet Water Prayer Camp
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Documenting Living Culture - Ramapough Lenape Split Rock Sweet Water Prayer Camp
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Thanks to a collaboration with Chief Clara Soaring Hawk from the Deer Clan of the Ramapough Lenape tribe, Raíces Digital Archive will construct an exhibit honoring, documenting and sharing Ramapough Lenape Culture in 2018. All photos in the current exhibit were taken by Raíces Cultural Center's crew while visiting the Split Rock Sweet Water Prayer Camp in Mahwah, NJ and serve to document our own experiences there as members of the public and general community have recently been invited to share in teachings, ceremony, work, education and celebration.
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Chant for Split Rock Sweetwater Camp
On December 4, 2016, the Raíces crew headed to the Split Rock Sweetwater Prayer Camp on the Ramapough Lenape sacred prayer grounds in Mahwah, NJ for an open and public Tobacco Ceremony. The prayer ceremony was held in solidarity with Standing Rock. …
Ramapough Lenape Ceremonial Objects
Ramapough Lenape Ceremonial Objects outside of a ceremony being held in a teepee at Split Rock Sweet Water Prayer Camp.
Water Ceremony Teachings
Grandmother Nancy of Algonquin heritage shared her knowledge and traditions of the Water Ceremony at Split Rock Sweet Water Prayer Camp. All members of the public were invited to participate in the teachers, learn the water ceremony, and then pass it…
Giving Gifts
Ramapough Lenape Tribe Member Mud Turtle giving a gift to a friend and neighbor of Split Rock Sweet Water Prayer Camp, Christina Dioguirdi Scott
Ramapough Lenape Drummers
Ramapough Lenape drummers after a ceremony at Split Rock Sweet Water Prayer Camp.
Teepee at Split Rock Sweet Water Prayer Camp - Ramapough Lenape Ceremonial Land.
The teepee is not a traditional structure for Ramapough Lenape people, however it was erected symbolically on their ceremonial land when donated to the camp as a temporary structure. As the Ramapough have been kept from constructing a long-house…
Owl
Ramapough Lenape Member Own giving a presentation on the history of the Lenape lands and modern struggles of Indigenous and First Nations people to have sovereign control of their lands and protection of the environment.
Cleansing Before Tobacco Ceremony
Member of the Ramapough Lenape tribe cleansing participants of a tobacco ceremony before entering the ceremonial lodge.
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