tbd casting co. operates on the island of Manahatta which is part of a larger nation, Lenapehoking, the sacred, ancestral homeland of the Lenape people--the Indigenous people of Manhattan, the first New Yorkers--which includes three distinct Lenape groups: Canarsie, Sapohanikan, and Manhattan. The word Lenape means “Original People ''. The word Manahatta (where the word Manhattan comes from) is the Lenape word for “Island of Many Hills”.