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In seventeen pages this paper examines the respectful and harmonious relationship William Penn cultivated with the Lenni Lenape (Delaware) Indians who were residing in Pennsylvania during the seventeenth century and how the promises he made to them in good faith regarding their land were subsequently broken after his death by his greedy sons Thomas and John. Eight sources are listed in the bibliography.
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- later given the name Delaware Indians by English colonists - were unfortunately not always treated with the respect they deserved. Prior to the arrival of the Europeans, the
Lenni Lenape resided in the southeast portion of New York, in southeastern Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New Jersey (Caffrey 44-45). There were also a few living in northern Maryland, but
the greatest concentration of these Indians was along the Delaware River, hence their Anglicized name (Soderlund 86). Because they were so dispersed and were not unified as were the
Iroquois, the Lenni Lenape tribe was rendered "extremely vulnerable" because of the European colonization (Cave 64). There were originally about 40 separate groups in number and spoke two somewhat related
but distinctive Algonquian (or Algonkian) dialects (Cave 64). The tribal name of Lenni Lenape translates to mean "Original People" and its somewhat nomadic peoples lived an agrarian lifestyle of
farming and hunting (Soderlund 86). Their predominant crops were beans, corn, and squash (Soderlund 86). In the winter, the Lenni Lenape would leave their tiny villages and go
hunting, returning in the spring in time for crop planting (Soderlund 86). The first encounter between these Indians and the Europeans is believed to be around 1600. By
the end of the seventeenth century, they had become accustomed to European guns, tools, cloth, and of course liquor (Soderlund 86). The Europeans brought something else with them to
the Lenni Lenape region besides their various wares; they also brought diseases including smallpox, measles, and tuberculosis, which significantly reduced the native population (Soderlund 86). The early Dutch and
Swedish settlers in the Lenni Lenape territory were naturally suspicious of the indigenous peoples and were always prepared for a possible Indian attack (Soderlund 86). But the group of Quakers
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