AMST 0862 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Walking Purchase, Algonquian Peoples, Lenapehoking
25 Oct 2017
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Traditional lenape lands, also known as the (cid:494)lenapehoking(cid:495), were vast and spread up and down the mid-atlantic region. Clan and tribal structure: originally, the lenape existed and lived in many smaller clans and kinfolk groups that then belonged to one of the three larger clan group. In 1524, lenape in canoes met giovanni da verrazzano, the first european explorer to enter new york harbor: smallpox devastated lenape communities by the time of large-scale. European colonization: the lenape became tributary to the susquehannock after a trade war and remained tribute until the french and indian war. In 1682, william penn and quaker colonists created the english colony of. Pennsylvania beginning at the lower delaware river: a peace treaty was negotiated between the newly arriving english and the. The walking purchase, 1737: an agreement between william penn(cid:495)s sons and the lenape, the penn family and proprietors claimed an area of. 1,200,000 acres and forced the lenape to vacate it.
