Native American Council’s 14th Annual Powwow

Saturday, May 2nd, 2026. The Native American Council’s 14th Annual Powwow in Manhattan, New York City, was organized by the Columbia University Native American Council on May 2nd, 2026.

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The Native American Council’s 14th Annual Powwow was at Heckscher Playground Lawns in Central Park, from 11 AM to 5 PM.

The Drum group was Scuffletown Society. The Head Dancers were Kaylee Evans (@kay_e29_) and Darian Bemo (@l.o.e_darian). The Emcee was Victor Vegas.

More information soon.

“Mark your calendars for Native American Council’s 14th Annual Powwow on May 2nd, continuing our tradition at Central Park for the 2nd year.

We thank @aichnyc (American Indian Community House Inc.) for their collaboration and support for the 14th annual powwow, Native American Council, and the greater Indigenous community in New York,” said Columbia University Native American Council on Instagram before the powwow.

Remembering Our Missing and Murdered Indigenous People.

Washington Square Park.
Manhattan, New York City.
Sunday, May 3rd, 2026. 12 PM – 2 PM.

“Please join us on May 3rd in Washington Square Park. Together, we remember and call for justice on behalf of our communities and dear ones,” says the American Indian Community House Inc.

MANAHATTA, LENAPEHOKING.

Before New York City, there was Lenapehoking, the ancestral land of the Lenape people. Forcibly displaced by White European invaders, their land was stolen to create settler states. We live on stolen land. LAND BACK NOW!

Lenapehoking translated as ‘homelands of the Lenape’. The territory of the Lenape people before White Europeans invaders arrived was known to them as Lenapehoking, and it covered roughly the area between New York City and Philadelphia, including all of New Jersey, eastern Pennsylvania and part of the state of Delaware.

The name Manhattan derives from the Indigenous Lenape word “Manahatta.” Indigenous Lenape people—the original inhabitants of Manhattan and all of New York City—called the island Manahatta, which means “Hilly Island.”

White European invaders stole Manahatta and all of New York City from the Lenape people. White Europeans committed GENOCIDE and ETHNIC CLEANSING against Indigenous Lenape people in New York City.

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