{"id":170402,"date":"2026-04-19T23:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T23:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/170402\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T23:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T23:19:08","slug":"honoring-lenape-culture-at-scranton-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/170402\/","title":{"rendered":"Honoring Lenape culture at Scranton park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE\/WYOU) \u2014 A new addition in a local park is helping people reconnect with the region\u2019s first residents. A crowd gathered at Nay Aug Park inside the Greenhouse Project as a new sign was unveiled, honoring the Lenape people and their deep connection to the land.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The sign highlights the history of the Lenape, the Indigenous people who lived in this region long before European colonization.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a class=\"link  yahoo-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/students-locals-celebrate-annual-block-030605054.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Students, locals celebrate annual block party;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Students, locals celebrate annual block party&quot;}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Students, locals celebrate annual block party <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The event featured a cultural program followed by a dedication ceremony led by Lenape elder Curtis Zunigha.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Visitors learned about traditional practices like growing corn, beans, and squash, took part in storytelling, and planting Indigenous seeds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.2822news.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to 28\/22 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to 28\/22 News.&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to 28\/22 News. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE\/WYOU) \u2014 A new addition in a local park is helping people reconnect with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[76584,76581,201,76582,76583,7252,178,180,179],"class_list":["post-170402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-european-colonization","tag-greenhouse-project","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-lenape-people","tag-local-park","tag-nay-aug-park","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}