NAP On Campus
Greenfield Intercultural Center
Located at 3708 Chestnut Street, the Greenfield Intercultural Center, affectionately referred to as the GIC has been the home of Natives at Penn (NAP) since the organization’s inception in 1994. The GIC is a “home away from home” to many Native/Indigenous students and alumni and a nurturing family and community to students while they are at Penn. The caring staff at the GIC provide a safe space for building community, for intercultural dialogue and valuable interaction with students, faculty, staff and visitors from around the globe. It is a great place to hang out, share a meal and learn together!!!
NAP Room
Do you ever wish that you had a space on campus where you could go to relax outside of your dorm room or apartment?? Well, Natives at Penn has its very own room located on the third floor of the GIC. This is a great place to relax, study, hangout, or even just take a nap. This is your space and you can come and go and utilize this space as you please. We hope to see you hanging out in the NAP room all year!
Lenape Garden
The Association of Native alumni, our local Lenape Community, Natives at Penn, GIC worked closely with Penn’s Landscape Architect Robert Lundgren to create our very own Lenape garden in the back of the Greenfield Intercultural Center. In a widely shared Lenape creation story, a turtle is summoned by the Creator out of the deep water to become an island home from which life grows: trees, roots, and branches, and from there the first man and first woman. This story is celebrated through a turtle-shaped garden, a nod to Penn’s Native/Indigenous community which dates back to 1755. This is a great place to relax, study, pray and socialize with friends.
"When you begin a great work you can't expect to finish it all at once; therefore do you and your brothers [and sisters] press on, and let nothing discourage you till you have entirely finished what you have begun."
- Lenape Chief Teedyuscung, 1758
