4. Keywords for Building Relationships in Lenape and Nanticoke Homelands
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The Keywords project provides transparent and accountable language to support relationship-building among members of University of Delaware and Indigenous peoples. We focus on Lenape and Nanticoke in the Delaware watersheds, those forcibly displaced from this
region, and other American Indians dispossessed through the University’s land grant history. This document defines a wide array of terms associated with these groups and their colonization, including language used in the committee’s Living Land Acknowledgement, Institutional Action Steps, and Land Grant History. Having language in common creates a foundation for dialogue and collective action. Yet our various constituencies do not necessarily share the same vocabulary or meanings for the same words. Our selection of keywords balances current best practices in the academic field of Indigenous Studies with the preferred language of American Indian communities with whom we are in dialogue.