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In the end, the runners of the Walking Purchase of 1737 procured 1,200 square miles [more than 1 million acres] of Lenni Lenape land in Pennsylvania. Included in the land procured was land commonly referred to as the "Forks of the Delaware," which contained the parcel of land at the center of this dispute, "Tatamy's Place." [3]
Tulpehocken – 'land of turtles', the name of a creek and a SEPTA train station and street in Philadelphia [41] / *Nora Thompson Dean (Touching Leaves Woman): 'turtle land', from Lenape Tulpehaking. [7] Unami Creek – From Lenape word Unami meaning 'person from down river' [29] Wallenpaupack - From Lenape name meaning the 'stream of swift and ...
The Lenape of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Delaware, Wisconsin, Oklahoma, and Ontario (The Library of Native Americans). Powerkids Publishing, 2005. ISBN 978-1-4042-2872-6. De Valinger, Leon, Jr. and C.A. Weslager. Indian Land Sales In Delaware: And A Discussion Of The Family Hunting Territory Question In Delaware. Literary Licensing LLC ...
An Acknowledgement of What Came Before. ... and the land the mansion sits on, when we reached out to the Lenape center,” says De León. ... “We wanted the Lenape to do a blessing—a round ...
A map of the Six Nations land cessions. The Six Nations land cessions were a series of land cessions by the Haudenosaunee and Lenape which ceded large amounts of land, including both recently conquered territories acquired from other indigenous peoples in the Beaver Wars, and ancestral lands to the Thirteen Colonies and the United States.
A land acknowledgement or territorial acknowledgement is a formal statement that acknowledges the original Indigenous peoples of the land, spoken at the beginning of public events. The custom of land acknowledgement is a traditional practice that dates back centuries in many Indigenous cultures. [1]
Tamaqua or Tamaque, also known as The Beaver and King Beaver (c. 1725 – 1769 or 1771), [2] was a leading man of the Unalachtigo (Turkey) phratry of the Lenape people.Although the Haudenosaunee in 1752 had appointed Shingas chief of the Lenape at the Treaty of Logstown, after the French and Indian War Tamaqua rose in prominence through his active role as peace negotiator, and was acknowledged ...
[11] William Penn's sons, Thomas Penn (1702–1775) and John Penn (1700–1746), convinced the Lenape that their father had already bought the land from them. [12] Contrary to Lenape belief, the two brothers Thomas Penn, John Penn - ("the American") and provincial official James Logan had arranged and hired fast runners to run a prepared path ...