Ramapough Lenape - Split Rock Sweet Water Prayer Camp
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Ramapough Lenape - Split Rock Sweet Water Prayer Camp
Description
Thanks to a collaboration with Chief Clara Soaring Hawk from the Deer Clan of the Ramapough Lenape tribe, Raíces Digital Archive will construct an exhibit honoring, documenting and sharing Ramapough Lenape Culture in 2018. All photos in the current exhibit were taken by Raíces Cultural Center's crew while visiting the Split Rock Sweet Water Prayer Camp in Mahwah, NJ and serve to document our own experiences there as members of the public and general community have recently been invited to share in teachings, ceremony, work, education and celebration.
Collection Items
Cleansing Before Tobacco Ceremony
Member of the Ramapough Lenape tribe cleansing participants of a tobacco ceremony before entering the ceremonial lodge.
Teepee at Split Rock Sweet Water Prayer Camp - Ramapough Lenape Ceremonial Land.
The teepee is not a traditional structure for Ramapough Lenape people, however it was erected symbolically on their ceremonial land when donated to the camp as a temporary structure. As the Ramapough have been kept from constructing a long-house…
Ramapough Lenape Drummers
Ramapough Lenape drummers after a ceremony at Split Rock Sweet Water Prayer Camp.
Giving Gifts
Ramapough Lenape Tribe Member Mud Turtle giving a gift to a friend and neighbor of Split Rock Sweet Water Prayer Camp, Christina Dioguirdi Scott
Water Ceremony Teachings
Grandmother Nancy of Algonquin heritage shared her knowledge and traditions of the Water Ceremony at Split Rock Sweet Water Prayer Camp. All members of the public were invited to participate in the teachers, learn the water ceremony, and then pass it…
Ramapough Lenape Ceremonial Objects
Ramapough Lenape Ceremonial Objects outside of a ceremony being held in a teepee at Split Rock Sweet Water Prayer Camp.