Please Don’t Thank Us for the Land

Mr. Walker is a citizen of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation.

The guide acknowledged that we were standing on the ancestral homelands of the Munsee Lenape. He was a careful man in a careful place: the Union Church of Pocantico Hills, the Rockefeller family’s church at the edge of their Kykuit estate in the Hudson Valley of New York. The morning light on the pews streamed in through stained glass windows by Matisse and Chagall. A few people in the group glanced at me, the Native person in the........

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