The Lenape-Delaware People were a confederation of communities, peaceful farmers, fishermen, and hunters. For a generation, they were treated with scorn as “women, good only for raising corn.” Berated, dispossessed and repeatedly betrayed by their allies, both red and white, the Delaware were forced to flee westward from their ancestral homes. There they underwent a transformation of identity, generated powerful new leadership, and developed into the fiercest and most devastating warriors of the Ohio Frontier.

Rick Durham, from the Ewing Township Historic Preservation Society, will talk about the domination and subjugation of the Lenape-Delaware, both by arms and artifice, by their powerful Iroquois Nation rivals;  their resurging influence during the French & Indian Wars, the American Revolution, the Tecumseh Rebellion of the Northwest, ….and beyond.

Rick will draw not only from current research sources, but also include the primary testimony of early historical writers who lived among the Delaware during this critical time.