Event Details
Friday, November 27th at 11 a.m.
in the plaza on Bowling Green in front of the
National Museum of the American Indian
This historic event is FREE and open to the public.
Join us afterwards for a time of friendship
and a light meal in the plaza.
The event site has historical significance, as it is near where the first Collegiate Church was raised in Fort Amsterdam. And, just across State Street The Netherlands Monument stands as a reminder of the greatest misunderstanding by the Dutch of Native Americans: Peter Minuit’s so-called “purchase” of Manhattan in 1626 for 60 guilders’ worth of dry goods. The Lenape, having no concept of private ownership of land, likely believed that Minuit was not purchasing the island but instead thanking them for the aid they had given the Dutch settlers when they first started arriving here.
Nearest Subway Stations:
R,W to Whitehall
4,5 to Bowling Green
1 to South Ferry
Bowling Green Park is at
Broadway and Whitehall Street
in New York City
November 27th, 2009 marks the first
NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE DAY!