NYU's Expository Writing Program sits on ancestral Lenape homelands. The Lenape were forcibly expelled from this land, experiencing a series of exclusions and erasures that saw them moving from Pennsylvania, then Ohio, Indiana, St. Louis, Missouri, Kansas, and finally Oklahoma. Though this is the case, New York City still has the largest urban Native population in the United States. They have primacy, we are committed to working against their erasure.