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River Whittle is a Caddo, Lenape, and Irish-American-settler Interdisciplinary artist and youth mentor. River currently lives in occupied Tiwa territory in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and is versed in photography, printmaking, and experimental video. They are also learning jewelry (silver, bronze, and copper) as well as pottery. River\u2019s work focuses on the fluid and giving relationship between ancestors and futures beyond binary colonial structures.<\/p>\n
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ARTIST\u2019S STATEMENT
\nI come from the Delaware Nation of Oklahoma, otherwise known as the Lenape. This land, Lenapehoking, is our land, yet most of us don\u2019t even have the money to visit.
\nWhen the colonizers invaded, we invited them to share this land with us. They claimed they bought the territory from us, banned us from it, and built a wall lined with our severed heads to keep us out. This area became known as Wall Street, a center for global capitalism. Settlers have never stopped colonizing our lands with systems of capitalism, racism, heteropatriarchy, and environmental destruction.<\/p>\n
This piece was created to carve out the truth. My call for land back is the first necessary step for healing. We need settlers and rich folks to return our home to us. No matter who you are, you can advocate for us in the spaces you occupy. Share our story, fundraise for us, seek out our opinions.Honor the land, honor the people.
\nNote: for inquiries on giving land back, reach out to the following tribes \/ descendants of the following tribes ONLY (there are many fake \u201ctribes\u201d impersonating the Lenape in the East, which is possible because the real Lenapes were pushed so far away): Delaware Tribe of Indians in Bartlesville, OK; the Delaware Nation of Oklahoma in Anadarko, OK; the Stockbridge-Munsee and Mohican Community in Wisconsin; the Moravian Delaware of the Thames in Ontario, Canada; at Munceytown in Ontario, Canada; and the Delaware of Six Nations in Ontario, Canada.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":1755,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"class_list":["post-1754","artist","type-artist","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/socratessculpturepark.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist\/1754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/socratessculpturepark.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/socratessculpturepark.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artist"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socratessculpturepark.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/socratessculpturepark.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}