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LENAPEHOKING

by Brent Michael Davids

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LENAPEHOKING is an Anthem for Lenape Center in Manhattan.

As an anthem, LENAPEHOKING is an affirmation of empowerment for all Lenape people returning to Lenapehoking (Lenape territory). The Lenape people ARE Manahatta. We are the place and the place is us. Lenape stomp dances use turtle shell rattles on the dancer’s legs, and the stomping creates the rattle sound heard in the song. “Manahatta” (Manhattan) is the Munsee word for “the place where we get the wood to make the bows.”

Historically, the Lenape were driven away in a diaspora into Oklahoma, Wisconsin and Canada. Many indigenous languages were traditionally spoken in New York: Munsee, Unami, Lenape, Mahican, Wappinger, and a host of others. Heard in present-day New York are countless other languages. Manhattan as indigenous land remains an open secret rendered invisible by society, and that awareness applies to the distant past, this immediate moment, and what lies ahead, all rolled into one understanding.

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LENAPEHOKING
An Anthem for Lenape Center

VERSE
Come hear the drums of the stomp dance
In the bow-making place, now absentee
Not invisible, but no one would notice
We’re Manhattan and always will be

VERSE
Come hear the languages spoken
Like softness of leaves in the trees
Counting what lies ahead, long ago, as of now
Open secret that everyone sees

CHORUS
I am not afraid of the future
It’s going to be great for the clan
No sign-posting, psychosing or ghosting
Lenapehoking is right where I am

VERSE
A diaspora in all shapes and colors
Untold dancing to not disappear
With the ancestors old and familiar
We want others to know we are here

CHORUS
I am not afraid of the future
It’s going to be great for the clan
No sign-posting, psychosing or ghosting
Lenapehoking is right where I am

CHORUS
I am not afraid of the future
It’s going to be great for the clan
No sign-posting, psychosing or ghosting
Lenapehoking is right where I am
Lenapehoking is right where I am
Lenapehoking is right where I am

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released March 15, 2021
Lead Vocal—Brent Michael Davids
Vocals—Cochise Anderson, Hadrien Coumans
Guitars—Joe Myers
Bass—John-Carlos Perea
Drums—Alex Alexander
Native American Flute—Brent Michael Davids
Flugelhorn—Delbert Anderson
Tenor Saxophone—Mixashawn Rozie
Bass Trombone—Brent Michael Davids
Hammond B3—Ann Millikan
Hand Drum & Turtle Rattles—Brent Michael Davids

Production—Doodlebug Music Studio
Engineer—Brent Michael Davids

Music & Lyrics ©2021, Brent Michael Davids
All Rights Reserved
Inspired by Joe Baker, Hadrien Coumans, and Curtis Zunigha

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Brent Michael Davids is a professional concert and film composer, co-director of the Lenape Center in Manhattan. Davids (Mohican/Lenape) is an Educator and Consultant for Film, TV, Schools, and Festivals. Master performer of Indigenous instruments and styles. Designer of original music instruments. Davids studied at NIU, ASU, Sundance Institute, and apprenticed with film composer Stephen Warbeck. ... more

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