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‘english’ –>
/ləˈnɑːpi/
/ˈlɛnəpi/
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*AKA* –>
“LENNI LENAPE”
“DELAWARE”
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(the lenape are an ‘indigenous people’ of the ‘northeastern woodlands’)
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(they live in ‘canada + the ‘united states’)
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(they are also called ‘delaware indians’)
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(their ‘historical territory’ included…)
*present-day ‘new jersey’ + ‘eastern pennsylvania’
(along the ‘delaware river watershed’*)
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‘new york city’
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*western ‘long island’*
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*the ‘lower hudson valley’*
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(during the ‘beaver wars’ in the first half of the ‘1600s’, ‘european colonists’ were careful to keep ‘firearms’ from the coastally located ‘delaware’, while rival ‘iroquoian peoples’ (such as the ‘susquehannocks’ + ‘confederation of the iroquois’ became comparatively ‘well-armed’)
(subsequently, the ‘lenape’ became ‘subjugated’ + ‘made tributary to’ first the ‘susquehannocks’ / then the ‘iroquois’ – even needing their rival’s (aka ‘superiors’) agreement to initiate ‘treaties’ (such as ‘land sales’))
“first we take manhattan…”
(like most tribes, ‘lenape communities’ were weakened by newly introduced diseases originating in ‘europe’, mainly ‘smallpox’ but also (‘cholera’ / ‘influenza’ / ‘dysentery’), and recurrent violent racial conflict with ‘europeans’)
(‘iroquoian peoples’ occasionally fought the ‘lenape’)
(as the 1700s progressed, many surviving ‘lenape’ moved west—into the (relatively empty) ‘upper ohio river basin’)
(during the decades of the 1700s, most ‘lenape’ were pushed out of their homeland by expanding ‘european colonies’)
(their dire situation was exacerbated by losses from ‘inter-tribal conflicts’)
(the ‘divisions’ + ‘troubles’ of the ‘american revolutionary war’ + subsequent american independence pushed them farther ‘west’)
(in the 1860s, the ‘united states government’ sent most ‘lenape’ remaining in the ‘eastern united states’ to the ‘indian territory’ (present-day ‘oklahoma’ + surrounding territory) under the ‘indian removal policy’)
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(in the 2000s, most ‘lenape’ now reside in the american state of ‘oklahoma’, with some communities living also in…)
‘wisconsin’
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‘ontario’
(canada)
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*their ‘traditional homelands’*
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(the ‘lenape kinship system’ has ‘matri-lineal clans’)
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(that is, children belong to their mother’s ‘clan’, from which they gain ‘social status’ + ‘identity’)
(the mother’s eldest brother was more significant as a mentor to the male children than was their father, who was generally of another ‘clan’)
(‘hereditary leadership’ passed through the ‘maternal line’, and female elders could remove ‘leaders’ of whom they ‘disapproved’)
(‘agricultural land’ was managed by ‘women’ + allotted according to the ‘subsistence needs’ of their ‘extended families’)
(families were ‘matri-local’)
(‘newly-wed couples’ would live with the bride’s family, where her ‘mother’ + ‘sisters’ could also assist her with her growing family)
(so….married men moving in with their ‘in-laws’…)
(that seems like a problematic familial arrangement to say the least)
(we’d all have grown up in grandma skip’s house)
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👈👈👈☜*“THE ALGONQUIAN PEOPLES”* ☞ 👉👉👉
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💕💝💖💓🖤💙🖤💙🖤💙🖤❤️💚💛🧡❣️💞💔💘❣️🧡💛💚❤️🖤💜🖤💙🖤💙🖤💗💖💝💘
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*🌈✨ *TABLE OF CONTENTS* ✨🌷*
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🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥*we won the war* 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥