Cultural Education Director Jeremy Johnson at the 2nd Annual Lenape Symposium on August 6, 2024

Second Annual Lenape Symposium Continues Welcome Home Partnership

For the second consecutive year, Ursinus College co-hosted the Lenape Symposium in conjunction with the Delaware Tribe of Indians as a part of the college’s Welcome Home Project

Ursinus College and the Delaware Tribe of Indians hosted the first Symposium on Indigenous Representation.

A Shared Responsibility: Ursinus Hosts Indigenous Representation Symposium

As part of its Welcome Home Project, the Division of Inclusion and Community Engagement and the the Delaware Tribe of Indians co-hosted the first Symposium on Indigenous Representation on August 8 and 9 in the Lenfest Theater and the Innovation and Discovery Center.
Welcome Home Project

Welcome Home: A Historic Partnership

Ursinus began a partnership with the Delaware Tribe of Indians and the Perkiomen Valley School District in 2021 on the Welcome Home Project, which honors the history, culture, and legacy of the Lenape people, who for thousands of years inhabited parts of Delaware, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania—including the Collegeville area.
Assistant Chief Jeremy Johnson of the Delaware Tribe of Indians speaks before the signing ceremony for the statement of mutual intentions.

Welcome Home

On April 12, our community solidified its connection with the Delaware Tribe of Indians alongside the Perkiomen Valley School District in a historic Welcome Home event.
Main Ursinus Sign

College Shares Land Acknowledgement Statement

In an email message to the Ursinus community on March 8, 2022, President Marsteller shared the Land Acknowledgement Statement recently approved by college leadership.

Ursinus, PVSD Partnership Brings Delaware Tribe of Indians Home

The school district and the college will help acknowledge history, culture, and legacy of Lenape people.
Chief Brad KillsCrow and Assistant Chief Jeremy Johnson

Partnership with Delaware Tribe of Indians Moves Forward

Chief Brad KillsCrow and Assistant Chief Jeremy Johnson of the Delaware Tribe of Indians visited campus as part of the Welcome Home Project, a partnership that includes Ursinus College and the Perkiomen Valley School District (PVSD).
North America headress

Early North America: Lori Daggar Assistant Professor of History

The scope of Lori Daggar’s research is as extensive and as complicated as the history of the United States—which is, in fact, just what her book, Cultivating Empire, explores. Daggar’s work focuses on the development of U.S. imperialism in the early 19th century in “Indian Country,” or what is now Ohio and Indiana. In particular, the book project analyzes the work of Quaker missionaries trying to “assimilate the Indians.”