Essay On The Lenape

Ore Adesanya
9-2 History Mr. Simpson

Lenape
The Lenape were Native Americans, who lived in around the Delaware river, occupying the states of Delaware, New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. Later on after occupying those areas, they were soon moved out by the Europeans due to war and unfair treaties. After the Europeans moved them from their aboriginal land. They occupied states such as: Ohio, Indiana, Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma. The Lenni Lenape lived in peace, until the Europeans came and caused chaos. Forcing them to leave the places that they occupied, and fooling them out of their land. The Walking Purchase is an example of what the Europeans did to the Native-Americans, it was an unfair treaty which made the Europeans get more of the Native-Americans land, although they made the treaty seem as if it was going to be a fair deal. This unfairness wasn’t only done to the Lenape, but it was also done
The Lenape lived around the east coast, Delaware, New york, and PA near the atlantic ocean. Like many of the Native Americans, the Lenape were foragers: “The Lenape were foragers with a seasonal pattern of band aggregation and dispersion geared to effective recovery of naturally available resources within their range.” They were foragers, they migrated during each season due to the amounts of food that they needed to feed the whole tribe. The foraging way of life worked for the Lenape, and they were happy with it. In the early years of the Lenape, from about 1600 they had a stable population of about 11,000 to 20,000: “In 1600, there may have been 11,000 to 20,000 Delaware”. When the Europeans arrived and had settled down, the Lenape population slowly started to drop. By the 1700s, the population dropped to about 4000, due to all the wars and