A Day In The Life Of A Lenni Lenape

1. A Day In The Life Of A Lenni Lenape A Look in the Past By: Olivia and Stephanie

2. A Little Bit of History • The Lenni Lenape lived in the 1600’s. Lenape means genuine people. They lived around where Ashland Nature Center is now. In 1682 they signed a treaty of friendship with William Penn. The Lenni Lenape gave him a lot of land. But the Lenni Lenape thought they would share the land, so it was a false treaty.

3. Food • The Lenni Lenape Indians never wasted any food and used nature to live. They farmed, hunted and fished and planted maize, beans, squash, pumpkins, and melons. Some things they ate were wild grapes and walnuts. Maize (to the left) is an Indian word for corn.

4. Healing • Lenni Lenape used cherry bark tea, willow bark (to the left)tea, pine needle tea, and tea made of roots to heal people if they are sick or not feeling well.

5. Spiritual Needs • The Lenni Lenape told many stories and danced spiritual dances. Many of their stories were from the older Indians of the old days. To us the stories would be thought of being made up, but to them they were real. Lenni Lenape have no written language, and did not write books.

6. Homes • Lenni Lenape lived in wigwams. Wigwams are made of bark and young trees called saplings. They stretched innards and dried them out and then used them to tie the sticks together for the frame of the wigwam.

7. Bibliography • Picture of the willow bark was from http://www.oplin.org/tree/fact%20pages/willow_white/willow_white.html • Picture of the maize was from http://www.blueridgegrown.com/organic.htm • The picture on the first slide is from Delaware History Museum in Wilmington, Delaware • http://www.hsd.org/dhm.htm • Dobrin, Norma. Delawares. Chicago, Illinois: Melmont Publishers, Inc., 1963. • Whiteford, Andrew Hunter. North American Indian Arts. New York: Golden Press, 1970. • Brewster, Benjamin. The First Book of Indians. New York, NY: Franklin Watts, Inc., 1950.