Land Acknowledgment

The Allentown Art Museum is located in Lënapehòkink, the unceded homeland of the Lenape people. We acknowledge the seizure of this land from the Lenape—and their continuing displacement—as a result of the fraudulent Walking Purchase of 1737.

Today, Lenape descendants include the following sovereign nations: Delaware Nation, the Delaware Nation at Moraviantown, the Delaware Tribe, the Munsee-Delaware Nation, and the Stockbridge-Munsee Community.

We recognize and respect the Lenape people’s enduring connection to this land and honor their thriving communities, past, present, and future. In accordance with our mission of sharing global artistic traditions, we commit ourselves to the ongoing process of creating space for inclusion and collaboration