The Lenape-Delaware Indian Heritage, 10,000BC to AD 2000 strives to make the reader aware of how we know about this people's history. Dr. Herb Craft reconstructs the ways of that Paleo-Indians and later ansestors of the Lenape Indians adjusted to various enviornments as hunters, fishers, and gatherers, and how settlement patterns changed with the introduction of horticulture. The author identifies and describes Indian artifacts and the specific roles of the sexes, the vision quest, arts technology, house and settlement patterns, religious beliefs, herbalism and curing. and death and burial practices, as well as the adverse effects of European contact and settlement, fur trade, the devastating effects of epidemic diseases and alcohol, and the final disposession of the Indians from their traditional homeland. A book truly rich in historic content.
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