LENAPE HISTORY SYNOPSIS

RULING PRIEST comes to MER RICKA

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I told you we had a
 ruling priest in the light
 on the other side.

[AD 1831, Lenape historian's emphatic statement
 to Moravian Priests, who saw and heard
 only a pagan half naked man in a "NEW" world.]

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In ordinary times the LENAPE lived in sod houses having thick roofs in a land where it was always winter.

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The homestead was given to the eldest sons. The younger sons had to leave home.  They became hunters.  They camped from coast to coast throughout North America.

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The animals ruined the land where it was always winter.  The Lenape migrated to the Rice Rivers in Minnesota, where they “saved themselves”.

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The people who stayed in the land where it was always winter learned a new religion.

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Priests of the new religion came to the Rice Rivers and to the east coast of North America.  The kids were taught the new religion via pictographs and memory stanzas.

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The cousins at the Rice Rivers separated and migrated through out all the land

at the rate of 10 to 20 miles a year for two centuries.

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 Then the climate turned very cold.  The open water marvels in Ungava Bay were the only places to find food.

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The people, from where the weather was always winter, decided, via a democratic process, to migrate en mass to the Rice River area in Minnesota.

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The migration of thousands of LENAPE was a heroic migration feat over many years.  At first they only got to James Bay.

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Geese and whales in James Bay sustained the throng of  thousands of people.  The number of people actually increased.

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The LENAPE hunters had a government by council meeting, which included the local people.  [The United States government is a government by council.]

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The council appointed a judge, which had red hair.  [The U.S. government is a government by council with a supreme court.]

A rescue team from beyond the land of always winter came to save the LENAPE people.  No one turned back.

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The leader of the rescue team died in a boat wreck.  The LENAPE returned to James Bay.  The lost of a leader, a boat and  a route to salvation depressed the LENAPE trapped in James bay.

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A priest helped maintain hope.  The LENAPE had to guard their meager resources.

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Snowbird, a leader, suggested scattering to migrate to the south.

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White Beaver, another leader, took some of the LENAPE east to Connecticut.

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Snowbird took the rest of the LENAPE to the Rice River area.  The LENAPE historian described Lake Winnipeg and Sisseton, SD as locations reached at the end of a year’s migration.

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Snowbird’s LENAPE had friends all around.  Suddenly there were “ten men dead.”  Remaining in place without adequate food was more dangerous than continued migration.

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The next stanza tells of a peaceful land around Big Stone Lake.  The main group of LENAPE migrated south at a rate of about 20 miles per year.

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The LENAPE migrated to Minnehaha, which means “small waterfall.”  [Minnehaha county SD.]

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Some type of deadly disturbance was occurring along the Missouri.  The LENAPE fled to the caves in eastern Minnesota.

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A few years later the main group of LENAPE migrated down the west bank of the Mississippi until they came to the Missouri River again near the Mississippi.

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The LENAPE grew crops on the Missouri lands.  East of them villages were being destroyed.  Aggressive people from the west came to the LENAPE lands on the Missouri. 

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The LENAPE chose to cross the Mississippi, going east.

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Many towns in the Ohio region joined the protection of the LENAPE.  

The LENAPE migrated east, hoping to reach the Atlantic Coast

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In Ohio the LENAPE and the Shawnee divided.  The LENAPE went to the New Jersey area.  The SHAWNEE went south.  The Shawnee became the more powerful group.

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In AD 1585 the Shawnee historian recorded the arrival of the “2^nd” English Voyage to North America.  
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The English Captain Ralph Lane shot the Shawnee historian.  The LENAPE history stopped.

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