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Lenape Items
Lenape Homes & Families
Lenape "Jobs"
History of the Lenape
European Interaction
100
Babies were kept safely out of the way and away from fires in this Lenape creation.
What is a cradleboard?
100
This is a small Lenape home for 1-2 families.
What is a wigwam?
100
Women and girls planted these "three sister" plants.
What are corn, beans, and squash?
100
The ancient people who first made their way across the continent to our area about 13,000 years ago.
Who are the Paleo Indians?
100
The first European explorer to see the Lenape people.
Who is Giovanni de Verrazanno?
200
A two piece cooking tool used to grind leaves, grains, or spices; the Lenape relied on it to grind corn kernels into cornmeal.
What is a mortar and pestle?
200
These are three reasons the Lenape always lived near water.
What is cleaning, cooking, fishing, travel, or drinking?
200
Men were relied on to do this job to supply their families with food.
What is hunting or fishing?
200
The body of water between Asia and North America that was connected by a land bridge thousands of years ago.
What is the Bering Strait?
200
People who move to a new country to begin a settlement or start a new life.
Who are colonists?
300
Dried deer tendon used by the Lenape as a tough, sturdy rope or twine.
What is sinew?
300
A large number of people in extended families lived in this type of Lenape house.
What is a longhouse?
300
Two things children could gather to help their families.
What are nuts, berries, or firewood?
300
People without a permanent home who move from place to place looking for food or ways to survive.
What is a nomad?
300
The NJ reservation where all Lenape were forced to live in the 1730s.
What is Brotherton?
400
This method of Lenape transportation was made using fire, scrapers, and axes.
What is a dugout canoe?
400
These are the three clans in Lenape society.
What are turtle, turkey, and wolf?
400
Elders passed down the history of the tribe and these stories that attempted to explain the world around them.
What are legends?
400
The study of the history of people, using artifacts left behind.
What is archaeology?
400
When the Europeans arrived, Lenape people did not have this, a resistance to diseases.
What is immunity?
500
A deerskin cylindrical pouch a hunter used to carry his arrows in an easy to reach place.
What is a quiver?
500
Three activities the Lenape enjoyed for entertainment.
What are music, dancing, singing, games, stories, wrestling, races, or festivals?
500
These family members tanned the animal hides and turned them into clothes, blankets, and pouches.
What are women (or girls)?
500
The people who come before you in your family history.
Who are your ancestors?
500
Trading goods or services.
What is bartering?