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Wednesday, April 30, 2025
Tuesday, January 23, 2024
New Contact with The NMAI
To establish a working rapport with the Natl Museum of the American Indian (NMAI), I've written to the current Director, Cynthia Chavez Lamar, offering my help in creating online programming about the Anacostan and Native History of DC.
In a comment on the letter, Chief Swann of the Piscataway-Conoy Tribe emphasized that the programming should include the living Piscataways, not just their history. I fully agree, and if I'm called on to work on a website addition, the modern Piscataways will certainly be included!
Here's a copy of the letter:
Dr. Cynthia Chavez Lamar
Director, National Museum of the American Indian
January 18, 2024
Dear Dr. Lamar,
Best wishes for 2024! I'm writing to introduce myself and offer any help I might provide so the NMAI would include information on the Native history of Washington, DC, especially the Anacostan/Piscataway people who once walked the land where the NMAI now stands.
In the fall of 2023 I published "Native American History of Washington, DC," (Arcadia Press). In the book I include an account of my efforts since 2016 to encourage the NMAI to address local Native history.* It was in 2016 that I became aware of the Native village that had been identified in the late 1800s on a site less than a 1/2 mile from the NMAI (Garfield Park/Carroll Estate). Since that time I've collected the history of nearly 20 other sites in Washington, DC. They are discussed in detail in my book, and more generally in an interactive map on this website: http://onceasitwasdc.org/.
I would be happy to meet with you, or members of your staff, to discuss how this topic might be added to the public materials of the NMAI. I suspect the most feasible and cost effective format would be as an online exhibit.
Sincerely yours,
Armand
Armand Lione, Ph.D.
Director, DC Native History Project
202.487.7092
http://onceasitwasdc.org/
*My previous correspondence with Kevin Gover can be found on this website: https://nativevillagemarker.blogspot.com/
Monday, January 22, 2024
City Ridge Presentation on Native American History of DC Book, Jan 30, 6p.
Friday, November 24, 2023
Native American Heritage Day 2023 - The Hidden Native Artifacts Found at the White House
https://youtu.be/oFEJ9SoR2eM
Thursday, November 16, 2023
New working link for "Manahatta to Manhattan"
Friend of the DCNHP, Tony Scialli, brought to my attention that the play "Manahatta" opened today in NYC. Perhaps more about that in the future, after Tony sees the play in December, but this note got me to look at the story I tell in Native History of Washington, DC:(p.120) (see text below).
When I checked the online link for the pdf of "Manahatta to Manhattan," I found it had been changed. The new working link is: ManahattaFINAL.indd (ospi.k12.wa.us)
Here's how the strange story is told in the book -
"In 2018, I came across a publication of the NMAI, which has a museum
in New York City as well as Washington. The article that I found online was
“Manahatta to Manhattan,” an excellent retelling of the Native American
people of the Lenape tribe who once lived in Manhattan. In a letter I
wrote to Kevin Grover on October 15, 2018, I cited that document on the
Manahatta and pointed out that it contrasts sharply with the absence of a
similar story about the Native tribe of Washington, DC.142 Oddly, when I
later went back to look for the Manahatta document, I found it was no longer
available on the website of the NMAI. It can still be viewed online from a
website in Washington State."
Monday, October 9, 2023
Indigenous People's Day Oct 9, 2023
To mark Indigenous People's Day 2023, here's the Land Acknowledgment for DC that was put together in 2019 with input from Chief Jesse James Swann of the Piscataway Conoy Tribe:
Monday, September 4, 2023
"Native American History of Washington, DC" Book Release, Sept. 4, 2023!
This book is the cullmination of what started with my earliest efforts to get a Native Village Marker for Capitol Hill!
Hopefully, telling the whole story of my collection of details on the Garfield Park/Carroll Estate site, and the many others around the city, will significantly increase awareness of the many missing stories in the Native history of DC!