A record was made of Britain's genocidal #smallpox weaponization during #PontiacsWar on #ThisDayInHistory in 1763. Philadelphia trader William Trent recorded the lines on the meme included in his journal after a meeting at #FortPitt with #Lenape leaders Turtle's Heart & Mamaltee.

#Quaker (#SocietyOfFriends) colonies in British North America are some of its least unethical experiments. #Pennsylvania, founded in 1681, had no militia until 1750 due to #pacifism. On #ThisDayInHistory in 1683 #WilliamPenn signed a friendship treaty with the Indigenous #Lenape.

Manhattan was acquired for goods worth about $24, but the Lenape likely didn’t see it as a land sale. Was this historic deal misunderstood from the beginning?
#ManhattanHistory #Lenape #NewYorkOrigins #ColonialHistory #HiddenHistory
Read more:https://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-americas/brief-history-dutch-island-manhattan-005754

The #GnadenhuttenMassacre targeted 96 Christian #NativeAmericans on #ThisDayInHistory in 1782 in Ohio during the #AmericanRevolutionaryWar. The American militia attacked #pacifist #Lenape #Moravians, killing 39 children, 29 women, & 28 men, who prayed and sang hymns as they died.

#DutchColonialism has its fair share of sickening massacres. On #ThisDayInHistory in 1643, settlers from #NewNetherlands colony slaughtered ~120 #indigenous #Lenape people in the #PavoniaMassacre in what is now #NewJersey. A Dutch eyewitness spoke of "infants...hacked to pieces".

#AntiColonial resistance often takes violent forms, which makes sense given how much #colonialism depends upon violence. On #ThisDayInHistory in 1791, warriors from #Lenape & #Wyandot nations carried out the #BigBottomMassacre in Ohio, killing nine men, one woman, & two children.

In Sept. 1812, during the #WarOf1812, numerous American forts in #Indiana were struck by #Potawatomi & #Miami warriors. On #ThisDayInHistory the two-day #BattleOfMississinewa broke out between the US & those tribes. A #Lenape village was also attacked. Both sides claimed victory.

Before Tottenville had its name, the Lenni Lenape called this place Aquehonga Monocknong — sandy banks and spirited forest. Their matrilineal society was remarkably progressive: women elders could remove male leaders they deemed unfit. They lived communally, moved with the land's rhythms, and thrived on the abundant oysters of Raritan Bay.
#IndigenousHistory #Lenape #NativeAmerican #StatenIsland #LocalHistory
https://medium.com/@AngieMangino/the-lenape-20afbde43ddc?sk=f9cdd259fe38299fdc342b59935b9e57

Meet the #Lenape Clan Mothers & Fathers on #Audible. #Tottenville #17thCentury #History https://www.audible.com/pd/B0CWBDCNDR/?source_code=AUDFPWS0223189MWT-BK-ACX0-387084&ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_387084_rh_us

Hear what it was like to be a Lenni #Lenape man in the 17th century who knew of his ancestors greeting the foreigner Verrazzano who arrived by ship in 1524 on #Audible. #Lenape #Tottenville #17thCentury #History https://www.audible.com/pd/B0CWBDCNDR/?source_code=AUDFPWS0223189MWT-BK-ACX0-387084&ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_387084_rh_us