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The Lenni-Lenape Tribe

By:Aidan Fitzsimmons

Location

This was the territory of the Lenape.

Location

The Lenape territory covered all of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware and also parts of New York. The Lenape lived near the rivers and streams in small towns.

The Lenape territory covered all of Pennsylvan...

Lenape Religion

Religion played a key role in the Lenape way of life.

  • The Lenape held religious ceremonies to honor the good spirits and chase away the evil ones.

Lenape Religion

  • To make the spirits happy, the Lenape put treats in places they thought the spirits lived to thank them.
  • The Lenape had different ceremonies for different things such as marriage, birth, a successful hunt or the first harvest of corn.

Click on the video link to learn about a Lenape religious ceremony.

https://www.njtvonline.org/news/video/nanticoke-lenni-lenape-teach-traditions-through-annual-pow-wow/

Click on the video link to learn about a Lena...

Lenape Land Use

This is how the Lenape lived every day.

Lenape Land Use

Lenape Land Use

  • One way the Lenape used their land was to grow crops for food.
  • The Lenape used their land to build their homes on. They used small trees and bark. Wigwams had one or two families living in them. Longhouses held up to five families at a time.

Lenape Land Use

Lenape Land Use

  • The Lenape also made sweat lodges which were used to cure the people that were sick. They put red hot rocks in the lodge and poured water over the rocks which made steam to sweat the evil spirits out.

Lenape Land Use

European Encounters

Giovanni da Verrazano was an Italian explorer, who met the Lanape tribe in 1524, while sailing along the Eastern coast of North America.

European Encounters

  • Giovanni da Verrazano thought he found a big lake, but it was actually the entrance to the Hudson River.
  • As trade expanded, the Europeans and the Lenape fought more over goods.

European Encounters

  • More and more Europeans interacted with the Lenape, which changed their life forever.

European Encounters

  • By the time Henry Hudson arrived in 1609, the Lenape no longer trusted the Europeans and fighting began.
  • The Europeans brought diseases that the Lenape had no cures for and people started dying.

European Encounters

Resources

  • https://www.njtvonline.org/news/video/nanticoke-lenni-lenape-teach-traditions-through-annual-pow-wow/

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenape

  • http://www.lenapelifeways.org/lenape3.htm
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