A nomadic people belonging to the Algonquin language family, the Lenape preceded the late 17th century European settlement of Pennsylvania by centuries.

For some marriage lasted a lifetime, but for others this union ended in divorce. Within state government, there are commissions on African-American Affairs. In 1655, Peter Stuyvesant, the Dutch Governor of New York, led an invasion capturing Swedish settlements.

He noted that they’d recently engaged Councilman Mark Squilla to commit to a new statue of Tamanend for the park. The Nanticoke fought the decision and prevailed in a 2018 court case that reaffirmed their state recognition. Ironically, the square named after Logan in Philadelphia’s museum district features a fountain with sculptures of mythologized Indians. Teedyuscung(also found written as Tedeuscund) played a significant role in the negotiations and had been baptised by Moravian missionaries but then later led many Delaware attacks against settlers in retaliation for stealing the land. Tinged with both sorrow and the hope, The Prophecy pays tribute to the past and looks forward to a more hopeful future.

Thanks for the real history however brief history on the Penn Treaty. Charles, Tribal councilman, judge, minister, Indigenous-rights activist: Norwood is a standard bearer if ever there was one. Kraft, Lenape: Archeology, History, and Ethnography, 138. Important tribes within this language group also included the Ojibwa, Blackfoot, and Shawnee. 3. Within state government, there are commissions on African-American Affairs. They were hunters, fisher people, and cultivated the area around Philadelphia along the banks of what are now called the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers.

Penn was determined to treat them as brothers and sisters as he believed they too were children of God. The soundtrack was New Agey–gurgling creeks, airy flutes–until the drums started up and an impassioned chorus of women shout-singing in the Lenape language brought the space alive. Now referred to as the Delaware (hardly an indigenous name), the Unami- and Munsee-speaking groups were increasingly pushed westward in the 18th century by the military alliance of the British and the Iroquois Six Nations. The statue of Lenape Chief Tamanend, which hovers over the entrance to 95 South on an exhaust fume-scented stretch of Front Street, also commemorates the 1682 treaty. Further fur trading posts were established along the west bank of the Delaware River. The size of their wigwams depended on the region they inhabited.

| Photo: Michael Bixler. Swedish traders encountered the Lenape in the 18th century, as did Dutch traders. "Fulfilling a Prophesy: The Past and Present of the Lenape in Pennsylvania."

In the 1730s, Penn’s sons reinterpreted an accord that Penn had reached with the Lenape in 1686, insisting that the Penn family claim extended a full day-and-a-half’s walking distance. A male figure in a red ribbon shirt and a female spirit figure serve as guides through the emotional landscape that connects the Lenape people to their lost land and hidden heritage. Easton sits at the confluence of the Lehigh and Delaware rivers. Penn Treaty Park opened on October 28, 1893 at the site of the Treaty at Shackamaxon. 2 (2008): 119–133. Such a dome-shaped house would have sheltered a small family or an individual. I found myself back at Penn Treaty Park on a bright Saturday afternoon in late May.

Thanks for this piece! Fulfilling a Prophesy: The Past and Present of the Lenape in Pennsylvania.

Bruce Obermeyer, Delaware Tribe in a Cherokee Nation(Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 2009) 37–38, 52–58; excerpted in “Removal History of the Delaware Tribe,” delaware tribe.org, accessed 9 January 2020. | Image courtesy of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. When the weather was favorable, men would use spears, harpoons, nets, and dams to catch fish. Thomas Penn sought to forcibly remove them, Logan tried appeasing them, but in the end the Proprietors merely sat back as a wave of European migrants terrorized most of the Lenape into abandoning their homes.” Check out Robert Hunter Morris’s “A Proclamation” of 1756 and later, Joseph Reed’s “A Proclamation,” of 1780. It gave members of the self-declared tribe–educated, disconnected from tribal life, but nonetheless imbued with Lenape culture and committed to preserving it–a platform to reintroduce themselves to the world. The Museum of the American Revolution, he thought, mischaracterized the 1737 land transfer, and “allows for the mistaken assumption that all Lenape left the homeland.” The American Swedish Historical Museum did a better job of explaining the Walking Purchase and Indigenous concepts of land tenure. We don’t like to make trouble.”, Outside the farmer’s market was winding down. They lived in single doorway wooden huts called wigwams, which were situated along rivers and creeks. They had oval facial structures with high cheekbones, tan skin, and broad shoulders.6 Both men and women used bear grease to dress their hair, and decorated their bodies, face, and arms with designs painted in various colors.7 The women were of medium stature. See https://www.baldwinparkphilly.org/the-lenni-lenape. Other cultures have existed for centuries. Thus, the native people constantly set up, abandoned, and resettled communities throughout Pennsylvania. The exhibition draws from oral histories, family heirlooms, and photographs, as well as archaeology, historical and ethnographic research. As calls to drop Columbus’ toxic legacy mount across the U.S., here in Philly it’s about time we also moved beyond our tourism board-approved origin stories to acknowledge the devastating impact colonialism had on the Lenape. Daniel Shurley Dan Shurley is a Philadelphia-born writer living in Gainesville, Florida.

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