Treaty Agreements and Responsibilities

Panelists discuss how treaty agreements established through wampum belts were upheld—or neglected—both on Lunaapahkiing (present-day New Jersey and surrounding region) and in the Lunaape diaspora.

Presentations on the treaty agreements and related obligations will be made by: John Moses (Kanyen’kehaka and Delaware, Six Nations / Canadian Museum of History), Mary Jane Logan McCallum (Munsee-Delaware Nation / University of Winnipeg), Jo Ann Gardner Schedler (Stockbridge Munsee Band of Mohican Indians).  Click here to register.

About the Fourth Annual Munsee Language & Culture Symposium:

This event continues and deepens ongoing relationships with Lunaapeewak (Lunaape people) from Munsee-speaking tribal nations, this year widening the circle to include Unami-speaking language keepers, as they gather with Princeton students, staff, and faculty on their own traditional territory, Lunaapahkiing. The symposium will take place in the presence of a wampum belt from Munsee-Delaware Nation, currently housed at the American Museum of Natural History, which will be in Princeton for the occasion. Sessions focus on treaty agreements, representations of Lunaapeew people in museums, language updates from each community, and versions of the Lunaape Story. This year’s theme is “Widening the Circle: Lunaape Land, Language, and History.”

Presented by The Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative at Princeton University and co-sponsored by Land, Language, and Art: A Humanities Council Global Initiative, the Program for Community-Engaged Scholarship (ProCES), and the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study. Presented with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this programming do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.