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17 Cards in this Set
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Early People |
a. arrived more than 20,000 years ago b. Nomads followed animals across the frozen Bering Straight from Asia to search for food. c. Scientific evidence-sttone tools d. earliest people for their food by hunting e. There were a lot of natural resources like clean water, good soil (fertile soil), people began practicing agriculture. f. Planted corn and squash g. Groups of people began farming villages because they could settle down in one place. |
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General Lenape Information |
a. Lenni Lenape menas "ordinary" or "original"people and spoke Allgonquin b. Homeland was by the Deleware River |
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Three main Lenape Groups |
a. Munsee b. Unami c. Unalactigo |
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Daily Life |
a. Culture is a way of living for a a group of people. b. No central government-individual villages were independent c. Culture centered around family |
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Matrilineage |
Mother's family is the connection that determines children's rights to use land |
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Where do Lenape live |
Located in present day New Jersey, Deleware, PA ( also called the Deleware River Valley) |
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Longhouses |
a. long and wide b. rectangular in shape c. made out of branches, saplings (thin, young trees) and covered in animal fur and bark. d. holes in the roof to let out the smoke e. could be up to 100 ft long |
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Lenape Clothing |
a. deerskin b. sinew ( animal guts) used as thread to sew the skin into clothes. c. decorated with dyes from berries and wampum (small beads made from seashells) d. turkey feathers and porcupine quills for decoration. |
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Special Ceremonies |
Mantuwak- a sprit that Lenape believed was in all things. |
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Special Ceremonies |
Doll Dance- a. Still held today b. Ceremony asking for good health c. Sed dolls made out of cornhusks d. Honored a spirit called Ohtas. |
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Sachem |
a. Chief
b. Leaders of the cumunity c. Worked with different villages to make desisions. |
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Chief Oraton |
Settled arguments between the Europeans (Dutch) and the Lenape. |
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Women |
a. Took care of the children b.Baked/Cooked c. Foraged ( searched) d. Searched for nuts, fruits ( strawberries, cranberries, blueberries) e. Dried the fruit by burying it. |
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Farmed |
Planted squash, beans, sweet potatoes, and corn. |
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Men's roles |
Hunted for bear, deer, otters, and turkeys. |
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Men's roles |
Fished Made nets , fish traps, and bows and arrows. |
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Children |
a. Collected water b. WAtched the fire c. Collected firewood d. Learned the roles of either the men or women |
