In Native society, we cannot separate culture from spirituality. Everything is sacred, and everything in nature is alive with its own spirit. So even the way one hunts, plants crops, dresses, and lives has deeper meaning than just food, clothing, and shelter. .

Also, culture is an ongoing process that can only stop with extinction. We are not extinct. Just as the descendants of those early settlers do not still live in log cabins and ride in wagons, neither do we live in the same way as our ancestors. Today, like our neighbors, we live in houses, have jobs, and send our children to school. Even those of us living on the Delaware reservation in Oklahoma no longer dress in leathers or live in wigwams.

Source: Àlankèntkátâxkwe (Star Dancer), Turtle Clanmother, Thunder Mountain Lenapé Nation

Learn more about the Lenape culture:
Appearance and dress
Role of men
Role of women
Games            

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Lenape Language      


Look for us:
March 13, 2010  -Pgh St Patrick's Day Parade -While relations in colonial times were strained with the Irish and the Indians, as with all European's encroaching on the  land, there were many examples of the cooperation between the Native people and the Irish.  George Croghan was one. example of the complexity of these relationships.  He was a trader and a diplomate. He had a Mohawk daughter who became the wife of the Mohawk Chief Joseph Brant 
June 19-Victory Stables, Apollo, PA 
August 21-22  Thunder Mountain Lenape' Nation Native American Festival, Saltsburg, PA
November 13-14 Clearfield Veteran's Pow Wow,  Clearfield Fair Grounds, Clearfield, PA