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ACME Screening Room presents Earth Day film

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Join the Acme Screening Room, 25 S. Union St., Lambertville, N.J., for an Earth Day presentation at 6:30 p.m. Friday, of the documentary “The Meaning of the Seed.”

The Ramapough today are instituting their own programs geared at restoring Indigenous environmental knowledge through activities such as waterway community paddles, Munsee language classes, and other elements of a cultural restoration program. An important site for this undertaking is the Munsee Three Sisters Medicinal Farm in Sussex County, N.J., founded in May 2020.

In September 2020 a documentary crew filmed a talking circle of Ramapough elders, relations, and partners at the Munsee Three Sisters Medicinal Farm. The resulting documentary, “The Meaning of the Seed,” is structured along the layers of the landscape.

The first section, “Soil,” describes the history of contamination in Ringwood and the contaminated ground that many Native Americans live on or nearby. “Seed” recounts the struggles of the Ramapough and their cultural connections to the land.

“Growth” chronicles the cultural restoration program and efforts to work toward food sovereignty through their recently inaugurated Munsee Three Sisters Medicinal Farm in Newton, N.J. Finally, “Sunlight” is a call to action, as the talking circle participants urge a younger generation to become involved.

A post screening discussion will follow the film with Vincent Mann, Turtle Clan Chief of the Ramapough Lenape Nation, Michaeline Picaro, a member of the Turtle Clan and professor Anita Bakshi, who teaches at Rutgers in the Department of Landscape Architecture

For information and tickets, visit www.acmescreeningroom.org.


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