The Lenape and the Colonists

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The Lenape and the Colonists
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The Lenape and the Colonists

• We will learn about each culture, what they
  looked like, why they came here and how they
  lived.
• New vocabulary
• Discuss the cooperation and conflicts of the
  salt people and the Lenape.
• Get a full outline of the units expectations.
• You will need to take notes at the end of the
  presentation. Please take out your notebooks to
  prepare.

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The people of NJ

• The first Natives came across the Bering Strait
  from Asia. They probably followed herds of
  animals that they hunted for food.

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How they lived

• They began as nomads. Nomads are people who move
  often to follow food.
• They some people began agriculture. Agriculture
  is planting and growing crops

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Lenni Who???

• These nomads eventually settled in NJ. They
  called themselves Lenni Lanape or Ordinary
  People.
• They lived along the Delaware River Valley. There
  were three main groups of Lenape, each with their
  own version of Algonquian

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The Culture of the Lenape

• Each tribe had their own chief or sachem.
• Chief Oratams story
• Lenape had a matrilineage or privilege and land
  was passed down from the mothers side of the
  family.

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Lenni Lenape Life

• Wigwam
• Long house
• The summer home
• Deer skin
• Decorated with feathers, beads, wampum and
  shells.
• Party and good times (manetuwak)

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Jobs

• Women
• Gardened
• Foraged for berries
• Dried fruits
• built homes
• Divorce??

• Men
• Hunted and fished

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Catching Fish
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How they cooked
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Fun and Games
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Winds of change

• The first Europeans came to American seeking a
  Northwest passage.
• Why?

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Dutch and Swedes

• The region now called NJ was broken into two
  large sections the New Netherlands and New
  Sweden. Trade began happening between these
  countries and the settlers.
• Trading and fighting for land began between
  Sweden, the Dutch and the natives.

• The English came to America for religious
  freedom.
• The Quakers were one group from England that
  settled in NJ. They demanded freedom of religion
  or tolerance as well as fair trial rights.
• Other settlers came from Scotland

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The Clash of Cultures

• The first conflicts between the Dutch and Lenape
  or Delaware.
• Land
• Farming differences
• Treaties mistreat the Lenape

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Unit work

• Vocabulary page packets (2 day)
• The time travel experiment (2 week plan)
• Unit Review packet (3 days)
• Jeopardy (1 day)
• Test
• http//www.delawaretribeofindians.nsn.us/language.
  html

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Cultural Pow Wow

• Natives http//www.prs.k12.nj.us/Just20for20Kid
  s/3-5/Lenape
• Colonial
• http//noahwebsterhouse.org/games.html
• http//www.ic.sunysb.edu/Class/est572/joreste/Gam
  es

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Music

• http//www.spiritwing.net/music.php