Mapping Lenapehoking

"HÈ, NULELINTÀM ÈLI PAÈKW. (WELCOME, I AM GLAD YOU ARE HERE.) NTELUWÈNSI "KIKINHÈT." KSAHKAKWENEL. (MY NAME IS "GUIDE." I AM HERE TO TAKE YOU BY THE HAND.) NISHUXWEHENA, NTACHIMWICH WASHE WEÖPSIT PÈCHI NUTXÙKHÙMËNA. (AS WE WALK TOGETHER, I WILL TELL A STORY ABOUT WHEN THE WHITE PEOPLE CAME TO US.) YUSHE TALI, LENAPEHOKING. (HERE, IN LENAPEHOKING.)" Part of a larger effort to interrogate histories of colonial dispossession and highlight Indigenous survivance in the Americas, Mapping Lenapehoking is the newest release from ATCG Books and Comics. Illustrated by Sadekaronhes Esquivel and Dale Deforest with a story by Lee Francis 4, this vibrant story follows the Lenape diaspora and paints a stunning picture of dispossession and renewal. By focusing on the colonial-era mapping of the Indigenous homelands known as Lenapehoking, we aim to deconstruct Eurocentric misrepresentations, reinscribe Lenape histories of place, and otherwise encourage more accurate understandings of Indigenous hist