1. Background Station Answers
The Leni-Lenape Tribe
Background
Station Answers

2. Background Name meant “original people”
Believed to be first tribe of the Algonquin people
Lived in the Eastern Woodlands
Eventually they lost their land and became part of the Cherokee tribe but were recognized as their own tribe in 1996.
Approximately 11,000 members today

3. Location 3 Clans – Unami, Unalachtgos, Monsey
Shared hunting ground with the Shawnee, Conoy, and Nanticokes
Enemies were the 5 Nations of the Iroquois
Located in what today is NJ, DE, and PA

4. Food Ate fish, corn, beans, squash, pumpkins, nuts, and berries
They hunted deer
Slash and burn – cut trees and then burnt them, planted their crops in the ash

5. Dress and Language
Women – wore their hair in braids or buns, wore long leather dresses
Men – shaved their head with one lock, wore knee length shirts and leggings made of leather
Spoke Algonquin and Iroquoian

6. Family Men – hunt, protect, clear the fields
Female – farm, make clothing, gather nuts and berries, ground corn, watch children
Lived in small villages of people
Oldest woman held position of importance (matrilineal)
Made their wigwams of bark and poles

7. Government An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth
Land, air, and water owned by everyone and no one
Great Spirit

8. Transportation
Mostly went by foot
Canoe was sometimes used