Driven From Lenapehoking, They Hope to Return to New York

Scritto il 05/06/2026
da Sarah Maslin Nir

The Lenape were forced out of their ancestral lands centuries ago. Now in Oklahoma, their descendants feel the pull of homeland in the east.Curtis Zunigha, a former chief of the Delaware Tribe of Indians in Bartlesville, Okla., has been making regular trips back to Lenapehoking, “the peoples’ land.”