The United Lenape/Lunáapeew Nations Pow Wow comes back to Prospect Park for a third year on Oct. 3–4, at the LeFrak Center at Lakeside. Two days of dancers, drummers, artists and food makers. Admission is free, though organizers ask you to RSVP — no ticket needed.
- Dates: Saturday, Oct. 3 and Sunday, Oct. 4, 2026.
- Hours: 10 a.m.–7 p.m. Saturday; 10 a.m.–4 p.m. Sunday.
- Where: LeFrak Center at Lakeside, Prospect Park, Brooklyn.
- Cost: free; RSVP requested through Prospect Park Alliance on Eventbrite.
- Who runs it: Prospect Park Alliance, the Éenda-Lŭnaapeewáhkiing (EL) Collective and American Indian Community House.
- What is there: drumming and dance, artisans, food makers, and a Youth Spotlight featuring performers aged 6 to 17.
- Also free: the companion exhibit Eelunaapéewi Ehaptoonáakanal: Voices of Lunáapeew/Lenape at Lefferts Historic House, with video interviews of Lunáapeew/Lenape knowledge-keepers — it runs alongside the Pow Wow.
The history is the part worth knowing. Prospect Park hosted intertribal Pow Wows from 1916 until 1972; the modern revival started with a Pow Wow at the Park Avenue Armory in 2018, followed by a culture fair in 2024 and the first full Pow Wow back at LeFrak in 2025. This year the organizers put youth at the center — two young Lunáapeew/Lenape adults were hired as coordinators, mentored by older relatives, alongside the 6-to-17 performers’ spotlight.
Lenape/Lunáapeew is the name of the Indigenous peoples whose ancestral homelands include what is now Brooklyn. Worth two hours on a Saturday, and the Lefferts exhibit makes a natural second stop in the same park.