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The Wolfsmouth Players Company acknowledges the Native Peoples on whose ancestral land we gather to work and perform, as well as the vibrant native communities who make their home here today. The locations in which we rehearse are built on the traditional homelands of the Munsee Lenape and Wappinger peoples, who have an enduring relationship with the land despite forcible displacement and dispossession by European colonization.

Munsee Lenape peoples continue today as the Stockbridge-Munsee Community in Wisconsin, the Delaware Tribe and the Delaware Nation in Oklahoma, and the Munsee Delaware Nation in Ontario. The Wappinger peoples continue today as the Ramapough Lenape Indian Nation in New Jersey and the Stockbridge-Munsee Community in Wisconsin.

Our performance venue is built on the traditional territory of the Lenni-Lenape, called “Lenapehoking.” The Lenape People lived in harmony with one another upon this territory for thousands of years. During the colonial era and early federal period, many were removed west and north, but some also remain among the continuing historical tribal communities of the region: The Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation; the Ramapough Lenape Nation; and the Powhatan Renape Nation, The Nanticoke of Millsboro Delaware, and the Lenape of Cheswold Delaware. We acknowledge the Lenni-Lenape as the original people of this land and their continuing relationship with their territory.

This ensemble’s acknowledgement is insufficient without our reckoning with the reality that every member of our players company has benefited from these Native peoples’ displacement, and it is imperative that we strive to counter the effects of structures that have long enabled––and still perpetuate––injustice against Indigenous Americans.