The Grandfathers Speak: Native American Folk Tales of the Lenapé People visual arts and queer identity

and queer identity

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and Illinois—and galvanized a twenty-first-century Indigenous resistance movement marching under the banner Mni Wiconi—Water Is Life

provides a window into a story largely lost to history

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The Grandfathers Speak: Native American Folk Tales of the Lenapé People visual arts and queer identityBeautifully and authentically narrated, these stories tell among other things, of how Nanapush, the Grandfather of Beings and Men, created the earth upon the back of a great turtle; of how Mnkahas the Rainbow Crow, flew to the twelfth heaven to receive the gift of fire from the Creator; and of how the Lenap people came to live along the eastern seaboard of what is now known as the United States. The Grandfathers Speak is part of the Interlink