Welcome to Widoktadwen.
Nishnabe legend tells of seven prophets who visited the Nishnabek, each bringing word of a new fire, or prophecy. The first six fires foretold of great migrations and the eventual devastation wrought by colonization. Despite the bleak outlook for the Nishnabek, the seventh and final prophet left them with hope for the future. In the time of the seventh fire, a new generation of Nishnabek would rise up and reclaim the old ways, retracing the steps of their ancestors and picking up the pieces of what they left behind. This is the seventh fire.
Widoktadwen Center for Native Knowledge is headquartered on the traditional homelands of the Lenape.
Learn more about Lenape homelands from the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian.
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Education
Widoktadwen partners with local schools, universities, public libraries, and other organizations to provide guidance in teaching about Native peoples, acknowledging both their histories and contemporary lives.
Leadership
We endeavor to demonstrate Indigenous leadership through community service related to social justice initiatives and environmental advocacy in our local community. We want to set an example of how to steward the land we occupy.
Activism
Our Center promotes indigenous values through drawing attention to the unique challenges facing Native peoples and cultures and working to decolonize the spaces we occupy.
A story matrix connects all of us.
Joy harjo
There are rules, processes, and circles of responsibility in this world. And the story begins exactly where it is supposed to begin. We cannot skip any part.
Joy Harjo is a past poet laureate of the United States. This quote is from her memoir, Crazy Brave.
Check out the Native Education for All initiative by IllumiNative in partnership with Amplifier to learn more about Joy Harjo and other notable contemporary Native leaders!
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