Programs with Lenape/Delaware Nations
Lafayette faculty and classes are engaged with multiple projects involving citizens of Lenape/Delaware Nations. These nations have been displaced from the homeland and can now be found in the following locations.
- Delaware Nation (Anadarko, Oklahoma);
- Delaware Tribe of Indians (Bartlesville, Oklahoma);
- Stockbridge-Munsee Community (Wisconsin);
- Eelūnaapèewii Lahkèewiit (Delaware Nation at Moraviantown), Ontario, Canada;
- Munsee-Delaware Nation, Ontario, Canada
- Delaware First Nation, member of the Six Nations of the Grand River, Ontario, Canada
Lenape/Delaware Citizens Visit Lafayette
March 24 & 26, 2026
Ian McCallum, citizen of the Munsee-Delaware Nation, Ontario, Canada, gave two lectures about Munsee-Delaware history and language revitalization programs in Andrea Smith’s Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (A&S 102) course.
October 15, 2025
Theresa and Victoria Johnson of the Eelūnaapèewii Lahkèewiit visiting Andrea Smith and Katelyn Lucas’s class, Lenape Homelands and Lafayette: How a College Got its Land.
Theresa and Victoria Johnson of the Eelūnaapèewii Lahkèewiit (Delaware Nation at Moraviantown), Ontario, Canada visited Andrea Smith and Katelyn Lucas’s class, Lenape Homelands and Lafayette: How a College Got its Land (A&S 320) to discuss the lasting legacy of the Walking Purchase of 1737.
Katelyn Lucas, Tribal Heritage Preservation Office, Delaware Nation; Victoria and Theresa Johnson, Delaware Nation at Moraviantown), Ontario, Canada; Kyle Keeler.
They also toured LaFarm to see the crops grown by students in Kyle Keeler’s Land Acts course (EVST ) for the Delaware Nation in Anandarko, Oklahoma.
April 23, 2025
Elisabeth Seidel, reporter for The Lafayette Student newspaper, and John Thomas, elder, Delaware Tribe of Indians at Jeremy Johnson’s event.
Jeremy Johnson, the Cultural Education Director of the Delaware Tribe of Indians (Bartlesville, OK), gave the inaugural talk of Lafayette’s new Indigenous Studies program to a packed audience of faculty, students, and community members, discussing Lenape history and culture. At the reception afterwards, Jeremy was joined by members of his family, who traveled from Bartlesville, Oklahoma. This was the first official visit of a federally recognized Lenape nation to campus.