Photograph of a young man dressed in Native American regalia drinking from a river in the woods.
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Enduring Heart: Native American Long Island

On view in the LIM Art Museum from July 16 through December, 2026

A celebration of the First Peoples of Long Island. Our Native American communities and people are at the heart of this region’s history, its present, and its future. Regardless of their ancestry, the 2.9 million Long Islanders of all backgrounds—who live in villages with Algonquian names that include Hauppauge, Ronkonkoma, Wantagh, Mastic, Montauk, and more—have a stake and a vested interest in gaining a much better understanding and appreciation of the complicated, interwoven, and ongoing story of Native Long Island. This exhibition is the first at LIM to explore the historical contours and the present-day artistic legacies of this story, developed in collaboration with an advisory panel of Native American community members and scholarly experts.

 

This exhibition is part of LIM’s America250 celebration,  featuring special exhibitions and related programming. Learn more at longislandmuseum.org/longisland250.

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Exhibition funding was provided, in part, by

New York State Council on the Arts  Flushing Bank Baker Pisano Foundation Sanders Insurance Agency Shea and Sanders Real Estate

Long Island in the ’70sphotograph from the 1970s of a young man running in cut-off shorts, smiling in front of a vintage car a d house.