Summer Words in Nanticoke

We’re celebrating the Summer Solstice by adding a few words from the Nanticoke language to our vocabulary. 

We hope you’ll do the same and continue learning the Nanticoke language through the book “Once It Has Been Spoken...It Cannot Be Unspoken: Kutiikiitowaakanun (our language).” 

In many Indigenous communities, the Solstice is a time for renewal. This season, we’re renewing our relationships with The Three Sisters: Corn, Beans, and Squash.

This is NRFF’s third year rematriating culturally meaningful plants with members of local sister tribal communities: the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation, Lenape Indian Tribe of Delaware, and Nanticoke Indian Tribe. It is also the first time that we are sowing, growing, nurturing, and harvesting these plants’ fruits to share with members of the community. Many thanks to our community partners: St. Andre'w’s School, The Seed Farm at Princeton, and the Experimental Farm Network as well as Truelove Seeds and Hudson Valley Seed Company.

As we renew our relationships with these culturally meaningful plants, we hope you’ll renew your relationship with NRFF. You can support our work to strengthen Indigenous food sovereignty by making a gift to NRFF. 

Wanishi, thank you, for your sustaining support and commitment to NRFF and our local community.