The People of the Delaware: The Lenape in Peace and War

About this event

The Lenape-Delaware People were a confederation of communities, peaceful farmers, fishermen, and hunters. For a generation, they were treated with scorn as “women, good only for raising corn.” Berated, dispossessed and repeatedly betrayed by their allies, both red and white, the Delaware were forced to flee westward from their ancestral homes. There they underwent a transformation of identity, generated powerful new leadership, and developed into the fiercest and most devastating warriors of the Ohio Frontier. Rick Durham, from the Ewing Township Historic Preservation Society, discusses the domination and subjugation of the Lenape-Delaware, both by arms and artifice, by their powerful Iroquois Nation rivals; their resurging influence during the French & Indian Wars, the American Revolution, the Tecumseh Rebellion of the Northwest, and beyond. This program is graciously shared with us by our friends at the New Jersey State Library.