On the Turtle's Back: Stories the Lenape Told Their Grandchildren Lumbee In his teens

In his teens

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On the Turtle's Back: Stories the Lenape Told Their Grandchildren Lumbee In his teensThe Lenape tribe, also known as the Delaware Nation, lived for centuries on the land that English colonists later called New Jersey. But once America gained its independence, they were forced to move further west: to Indiana, then Missouri, and finally to the territory that became Oklahoma. These reluctant migrants were not able to carry much from their ancestral homeland, but they managed to preserve the stories that had been passed down for