＂When they first arrived, they had the Bible and we had the land. They said to us: close your eyes and pray. So we closed our eyes and prayed. When we opened our eyes, we had the Bible and they had the land. ＂。 ----- A tribal chieftain ".
I grew up at Lake Hopatcong. For most of 5th grade (1954-55) we had a substitute teacher, his name was Mr. Eckler. He taught us the basic 5th grade stuff, but much of the time he talked about the Lenape. He had boxes of artifacts - like a pickup truck full, which he said he found mostly at Great Meadows. Over the school year, he read to us from "Dickon Among the Indians." He told me of a Lenape village (not saying where) which normally is underwater except for the times when the lake is lowered. I've been there many times, photographed circles of fire-blackened stones, found flint chips around the base of a rock where someone sat and made tools. I found a perfect grooved stone axe head at Hopatcong state park, when I was 11. Waterloo. I camped many times at Allamuchy Boy Scout camp, an easy walk to Waterloo. We would launch our canoes there. There was much talk about a fur trader - entrepreneur from the canal era, named "Frenchie." There used to be old stone houses and a long brick smoke tunnel around the scout camp, attributed to "Frenchie"and his fur and other businesses. I went there as a teenager several times. There were more remnants of the Morris Canal then than now. I haven't lived in N.J. for more than 50 years, but I'm still hooked on Lenape history and culture.
Would you be willing to share the location of the lake offline? I am writing a book on the Lenape and original Dutch settlers and would love to scuba dive on the site and map it. I have a background in marine archaeology and would never disturb the site.
@@joshuasnore3600 Well, I said it was Lake Hopatcong. The Morris-Sussex County line runs through the middle of it. The exact location of the village can be easily learned from the Hopatcong Historical Society. Their museum is at Hopatcong State Park. There are diagrams, maps, artifacts. It originally was called "Pechquakock," later called "Aroucun." Ther's not much left to see, there used to be post-mold circles of wigwams, but there was a major boatyard close by, and that stuff got washed away by prop-wash, etc. The lake is lowered 5' every 5 years. - used to be 6' every 4 years, and more was visible. The lake is normally 11' above it's original level People have been picking up artifacts there for 250 years.
"Yantacaw," "Weequahic," "Watsesson," "Hoboken," "Weehauken," "Acquackanonk," "Passaic," "Pasquack," "Hohokus," "Secaucus, "Hopatcong" and "Netcong." And east of the lower Hudson River, Lenni Lenapes lived in "Manahatta."
They are not talking about genocide. I suggest you suggest nobody is allowed to talk about natives without making it about genocide. Not sure how much of teacher you are.
I just got “hired” to be a part of the Turkey Clan at Churchville Nature Center!!! Cannot wait to learn all about the Lenape. I was born in NJ myself 😊🙏💜🔆 thank you for your knowledge and love!
I wish South Jersey had this type of village to visit. We had many Lenape here too. Like Manahawkin, land of good corn. Wow I didn't know they mentioned Manahawkin in the video till I got to the end. Tuckerton NJ down rt. 9 had an Indian burial mound. They place clam shells to make the mound. Its really cool to look at it.
You guys have all the exciting stuff. I mean where I'm at too but the Pines was called the Land of the Dragon, which is ironic thinking the Jersey Devil. But they had the water panther, the sea serpent monster, and even the Mesingwe which kind of resembles a sasquatch for us, remember not all was myth, just Mythunderstood ;-) Mythinterpreted lol
You are correct. The HS football mascot was also the “Braves”, a Lenape warrior man. My dad was the coach, and mom is Lenape so it always felt cosmic to see my ancestor on my jacket. But then as I got older I realized how disrespectful it was, and how ppl used to mimic yells and calls at the games. These are sacred things, not for outsiders to play with.
I found a hatchet head rock from the Lenape natives. In Mays landing next to the winding river or “ great egg harbor river”. Thought of digging it up more but never did
I became interested in the Lenape people because Lenape LN intersects with Apollo Drive in Old Forge PA. Also Lenape LN leads to Seneca Dr, Cherokee Dr, Apache Dr. The Susquehanna River is a short walk away. I discovered the remnants of a teepee made of what appears to be white birch trees. At the time I thought it might be a boy scout project because I'm not sure how long dead white birch trees last. I hope to be able to find it again. I have a general idea. I know people still find arrow heads along the Lackawanna River which flows into The Susquehanna River I plan on looking into some more about The Lenape people.
I am a decedent of the Lenape. I was born in Wilmington.,Del. This gives lots of info. I’m trying to learn. My family consisted of CheifAttakulakula, Dragging Canoe and NancyWard.
Hey, thank you for your comment. Do you know of any sources via web that I can find that will talk about these modern day pow wows and current Lenape in Nj?
Thank you for your post. Lenape arrowheads and old artifacts from revolutionary war are all over the mountains of the Kittatinney Ridge of Sussex County and valley. I was raised up there in the 60s and 70s. Back in the day when there were more cows than people. Solitude and peace.
my great great grandfather John Nelson Margeson Jr. 1889-1953 Oral history from a Margeson cousin (the grandson of John Margeson) states that he recalls a lot of Lenape Indians being at his grandfather John's funeral. i hope to meet a lenape one day if this is true.
This is a perfect example of how the use indoctrination and call it education. It's so disrespectful how the people are referred to as Indians. She clearly knows she should be using Native American, she said it in the beginning. And I'm upset that he's walking around with the costume on ment to be native clothes. They could have dressed and mannequin.
@@lamak0925 Saying American Indian is not disrespectful at all. Of course the country India is in Asia, but these American Indians have used those words for 600 years and have adopted it as theirs. If you visit any of the Reservations, you will see that the majority of them prefer to be called American Indian. The term "Native American" came from the US government in 1970. This was so they could further erase them and not have to honor historical treaties that were written between the US government and "American Indians." The word Indigenous is from university professors who want to virtue signal. Which is why many young people prefer the word Indigenous. But "Indigenous" also erases their identity and history. Anything can be "Indigenous" to an area, such as animals and plants, it just means something that occurs in an area naturally. There is much more to their identity other than just being Indigenous. The most respectful way to refer to someone is by how they want to referred. And many of them say American Indian. There's no need for people to try to take that away from them too.
there is Delaware Cometary north of DeSoto, KS on the e. side of highway K-2 south of the Kansas River. on the other shore is supposed to be the community of "Lenapi" per DeLorme's Gazetteer although only 2 houses remain and one has a tree growing through the roof
12:33 I live in Macungie, located in PA, which means "Bear Swamp" in Lenape. Thank you for this video. I admire how Native Americans were in tune with nature. Sad that the culture was wiped out.
Don't white people realize that their story about how Native Americans came from Asia to the Americas is in stark conflict with the Native tribe's story of their origin? I'm so sick and disgusted with that crossing the Bering Strait bullshit story. But what REALLY pisses me off the most is how many Native Americans accept that bs story as true while at the same time holding on to their origin story from time immemorial and continue to pass down the story of their origin to their children in their traditional folklore while at the same time teaching their children to believe as true what the white man teaches them in schools.
It's crazy how she knows it's inappropriate to call the people Indian yet she keeps doing it. She said Native American in the beginning but insist throughout the rest of the video to refer to them as Indians.
1000s of villages, all wiped out, then a recreated village was made to show how they lived? That’s sad and embarrassing to the world.. respectfully. 🙏🏽
@@jasonpalacios1363 The Natives Weren't A Peaceful People But The Europeans Weren't Peaceful Themselves. None Of The Europeans Or Natives Were Truly Peaceful Really.
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This is MAGNIFICENT! MARVELOUS!!! I wish I could do that for my family tree. As an African American, Ive only gone as far back to 1810. Now Im researching which tribe in Africa, my people are from. I think Im thinkong maybe either Igbo or Mandinka... wish me luck.
The most respectful way to refer to someone is by how they want to be referred. If you visit any of the Reservations, you will see that the majority of them prefer to be called American Indian. . Of course they know Columbus was a colonizer, but ancestors have been calling themselves "American Indians" for 500 years and have adopted it as theirs. . The term "Native American" came from the US government in 1970. This was so they could further erase them and not have to honor historical treaties that were written between the US government and "American Indians." . Also, the word Indigenous is from university professors who want to virtue signal. Which is why many young people prefer the word Indigenous. But "Indigenous" also erases their identity and history. Anything can be "Indigenous" to an area, such as animals and plants, because that just means "something that occurs in an area naturally". There is much more to their identity other than just being Indigenous. . Saying American Indian is not disrespectful at all, many of them say they prefer American Indian. After losing millions of people and their land, people shouldn't try to take that away from them too. . One more thing, Columbus couldn't have thought he was in India. In the 1400s the country that is now called "India" was called Hindustan at that time. And the people were called Bharata. They were also colonized and similarly their colonizers called them "Indian" too.
😢 Maybe the Indegenous Natives way of life disturbed Nature way less than the "advanced" European cultures and that is why it was in pristine conditions.
＂When they first arrived, they had the Bible and we had the land. They said to us: close your eyes and pray.
So we closed our eyes and prayed. When we opened our eyes, we had the Bible and they had the land.
＂。 ----- A tribal chieftain ".
Desmond tutu said that as well
“First the missionaries then the military.”
I grew up at Lake Hopatcong.
For most of 5th grade (1954-55) we had a substitute teacher, his name was Mr. Eckler.
He taught us the basic 5th grade stuff, but much of the time he talked about the Lenape. He had boxes of artifacts - like a pickup truck full, which he said he found mostly at Great Meadows. Over the school year, he read to us from "Dickon Among the Indians." He told me of a Lenape village (not saying where) which normally is underwater except for the times when the lake is lowered. I've been there many times, photographed circles of fire-blackened stones, found flint chips around the base of a rock where someone sat and made tools.
I found a perfect grooved stone axe head at Hopatcong state park, when I was 11.
Waterloo. I camped many times at Allamuchy Boy Scout camp, an easy walk to Waterloo. We would launch our canoes there.
There was much talk about a fur trader - entrepreneur from the canal era, named "Frenchie." There used to be old stone houses and a long brick smoke tunnel around the scout camp, attributed to "Frenchie"and his fur and other businesses.
I went there as a teenager several times. There were more remnants of the Morris Canal then than now.
I haven't lived in N.J. for more than 50 years, but I'm still hooked on Lenape history and culture.
Thanks for sharing
Would you be willing to share the location of the lake offline? I am writing a book on the Lenape and original Dutch settlers and would love to scuba dive on the site and map it. I have a background in marine archaeology and would never disturb the site.
@@joshuasnore3600
Well, I said it was Lake Hopatcong.
The Morris-Sussex County line runs through the middle of it.
The exact location of the village can be easily learned from the Hopatcong Historical Society. Their museum is at Hopatcong State Park. There are diagrams, maps, artifacts.
It originally was called "Pechquakock,"
later called "Aroucun."
Ther's not much left to see, there used to be post-mold circles of wigwams, but there was a major boatyard close by, and that stuff got washed away by prop-wash, etc.
The lake is lowered 5' every 5 years. - used to be 6' every 4 years, and more was visible.
The lake is normally 11' above it's original level
People have been picking up artifacts there for 250 years.
"Yantacaw," "Weequahic," "Watsesson," "Hoboken," "Weehauken," "Acquackanonk," "Passaic," "Pasquack," "Hohokus," "Secaucus, "Hopatcong" and "Netcong." And east of the lower Hudson River, Lenni Lenapes lived in "Manahatta."
Elmwood park
Piscataway
@@dennisprehn5702 And "Hackensack," and in the "Ramapough" mountains, and by the "Muskenetcong" river.
Straight out of the late 80's early 90's lol
Such a cheerful way to talk about genocide.
klesification LOL so true
They are not talking about genocide. I suggest you suggest nobody is allowed to talk about natives without making it about genocide. Not sure how much of teacher you are.
@@sinhurtzeveryone9770 you saying that as a Lenape doesnt exactly increase your credibility. Getting cancer doesnt mean I am a cancer expert.
I think this video was probably directed towards younger audiences lol they probably didn't want it to be so macabre
😅 OMG
I just got “hired” to be a part of the Turkey Clan at Churchville Nature Center!!! Cannot wait to learn all about the Lenape. I was born in NJ myself 😊🙏💜🔆 thank you for your knowledge and love!
I’m right up the street from Waterloo. Thank you for this channel. It’s becoming more and more difficult to find this type of local information
i loved this type of videos.. thanks for sharing the video.
I wish South Jersey had this type of village to visit. We had many Lenape here too. Like Manahawkin, land of good corn. Wow I didn't know they mentioned Manahawkin in the video till I got to the end. Tuckerton NJ down rt. 9 had an Indian burial mound. They place clam shells to make the mound. Its really cool to look at it.
You guys have all the exciting stuff. I mean where I'm at too but the Pines was called the Land of the Dragon, which is ironic thinking the Jersey Devil. But they had the water panther, the sea serpent monster, and even the Mesingwe which kind of resembles a sasquatch for us, remember not all was myth, just Mythunderstood ;-) Mythinterpreted lol
Even though Jersey is colonized not every ounce of it has been unearthed
Squankum by me is Land where Evil Spirits Dwell
If "Manahawkin," I suppose "Manalapan" too is Lenape.
You are correct. The HS football mascot was also the “Braves”, a Lenape warrior man. My dad was the coach, and mom is Lenape so it always felt cosmic to see my ancestor on my jacket. But then as I got older I realized how disrespectful it was, and how ppl used to mimic yells and calls at the games. These are sacred things, not for outsiders to play with.
Thanks! I have a test on this tommorow 🤓😎😀👍🏼
Thank you so much for this video
I found a hatchet head rock from the Lenape natives. In Mays landing next to the winding river or “ great egg harbor river”. Thought of digging it up more but never did
I became interested in the Lenape people because Lenape LN intersects with Apollo Drive in Old Forge PA. Also Lenape LN leads to Seneca Dr, Cherokee Dr, Apache Dr. The Susquehanna River is a short walk away. I discovered the remnants of a teepee made of what appears to be white birch trees. At the time I thought it might be a boy scout project because I'm not sure how long dead white birch trees last. I hope to be able to find it again. I have a general idea. I know people still find arrow heads along the Lackawanna River which flows into The Susquehanna River I plan on looking into some more about The Lenape people.
Look up Ras Ben
I am a decedent of the Lenape. I was born in Wilmington.,Del. This gives lots of info. I’m trying to learn. My family consisted of CheifAttakulakula, Dragging Canoe and NancyWard.
Paul Williams nativeamericansofdelawarestate.com/FamilyHistories/OthnielMurray_bc1730/index.htm
Wow! Great to know there are still Lenape people around.
Those you mentioned are Cherokee
You are not Lenape and all the people you named are Cherokee!
Chief tammend and Nancy ward is my 7th grand mom and Chief Powhatan is my 15th grand father his daughter Pocahontas is my grand aunt
I dont know if i like this, but it definatly is intresting
Why are you defiant? It’s not good to be argumentative this is a nice informational video no need to be angry buddy
The Lenape are still around they are mostly in South Jersey. You can go to their pow wows across New Jersey in the summertime.
hectela I having a pow wow on November 30
MegaMich42 where and time?
I went in a long house on my field trip
Hey, thank you for your comment. Do you know of any sources via web that I can find that will talk about these modern day pow wows and current Lenape in Nj?
Jefferson Konah yea go here www.crazycrow.com/site/new-jersey-pow-wow/
Hope it helps
I went to a museum in NJ or up state NY not sure if this was it but I still remember how beautiful it was and they gave us wooden flutes too.
Thank you for your post. Lenape arrowheads and old artifacts from revolutionary war are all over the mountains of the Kittatinney Ridge of Sussex County and valley. I was raised up there in the 60s and 70s. Back in the day when there were more cows than people. Solitude and peace.
This is so cool!
So cool
my great great grandfather John Nelson Margeson Jr. 1889-1953 Oral history from a Margeson cousin (the grandson of John Margeson) states that he recalls a lot of Lenape Indians being at his grandfather John's funeral. i hope to meet a lenape one day if this is true.
I went here for a school field trip and now I am doing a project.
Vary interesting, thank you....
Red cloth robes, metals and natural glass were a rare prestige object before Europeans but were known to natives before Europeans.
This is a perfect example of how the use indoctrination and call it education. It's so disrespectful how the people are referred to as Indians. She clearly knows she should be using Native American, she said it in the beginning. And I'm upset that he's walking around with the costume on ment to be native clothes. They could have dressed and mannequin.
@@lamak0925 agreed. But it does ride both sides.
@@lamak0925 Saying American Indian is not disrespectful at all.
Of course the country India is in Asia, but these American Indians have used those words for 600 years and have adopted it as theirs. If you visit any of the Reservations, you will see that the majority of them prefer to be called American Indian.
The term "Native American" came from the US government in 1970. This was so they could further erase them and not have to honor historical treaties that were written between the US government and "American Indians."
The word Indigenous is from university professors who want to virtue signal. Which is why many young people prefer the word Indigenous.
But "Indigenous" also erases their identity and history. Anything can be "Indigenous" to an area, such as animals and plants, it just means something that occurs in an area naturally. There is much more to their identity other than just being Indigenous.
The most respectful way to refer to someone is by how they want to referred. And many of them say American Indian. There's no need for people to try to take that away from them too.
there is Delaware Cometary north of DeSoto, KS on the e. side of highway K-2 south of the Kansas River. on the other shore is supposed to be the community of "Lenapi" per DeLorme's Gazetteer although only 2 houses remain and one has a tree growing through the roof
12:33 I live in Macungie, located in PA, which means "Bear Swamp" in Lenape.
Thank you for this video. I admire how Native Americans were in tune with nature. Sad that the culture was wiped out.
Love it
I am a descendant of this tribe. Currently a turtle clan tribal member
What do you think when I say BS
Id say you're likely right but im curious to know what you do because i have my opinion as well
We are native indigenous not indians
1:01 “wutterloo”
"and learn about the first New Jersiens" :[
Cool
what yr was this made in?
1991
Nobody talks about the Mesingwe :(
Where still here
with this I got a A+++++++ I love it
sup cupcake I am still working on my project
I went into a long house
My family
Bigfoot picture at 1:48 when she asks, “who were the Lenape?”
Don't white people realize that their story about how Native Americans came from Asia to the Americas is in stark conflict with the Native tribe's story of their origin? I'm so sick and disgusted with that crossing the Bering Strait bullshit story. But what REALLY pisses me off the most is how many Native Americans accept that bs story as true while at the same time holding on to their origin story from time immemorial and continue to pass down the story of their origin to their children in their traditional folklore while at the same time teaching their children to believe as true what the white man teaches them in schools.
History is written by the victors, sadly.
So was the Treaty of Easton forced upon the Lenape? Genuinely curious
Jack Cresson?
Is that a sasquatch hiding behind a mask at 1:48?
deserves a thumbs up
you mean down?
@@denisealcalde5032 shut up
bruh the toxicity my guy
Did they really move out???? Tell the true story!
I have Lenni Lanape in me .
@@michaelcampbell8315
Lol
I see Nobody ever taught you 2 manners
@@roscoep.coltraine6344 I see nobody taught you how to spell the word “two”.
@@Hustle_n_motivate44 Probably the same person that never taught you how to spell the word twenty. 💩🦃
If you wanna know the truth about the Lenape Indians check out Turtle Gang on youtube get the real knowledge
I learn this in 2nd grade
tf im in 4th and im learning
I learn this in 4th grade I still remember when I’m just an olddddd grandmaaaa I’m not really a grandma uwu
im in 2nd grade
Binderiya enkhamgalan I’m in 4th grade now
I’m a descendant of the Lenape,then they became the Algonquin and finally becoming Cherokees.
Paul Williams I read the Cherokee were Iroquoi, originally, not Algonquin.
I am Lenape, my group were never considered anything but Lenape. I am from an Ontario reservation
Wrong
You still disrespect these people by calling them Indians hundreds years later
Oh no
I have no Idey that your taking about
That's cool
It's crazy how she knows it's inappropriate to call the people Indian yet she keeps doing it. She said Native American in the beginning but insist throughout the rest of the video to refer to them as Indians.
👀
1000s of villages, all wiped out, then a recreated village was made to show how they lived? That’s sad and embarrassing to the world.. respectfully. 🙏🏽
the bus turning bruh
what
There no longer native tribes in nj” are people still run threw our blood tho we here😢
Wow this is insulting coming someone(me) that has family out of a reservation, the powhatan tribe....now
Yeah everything is insulting to everyone these days. Get busy finding a reason to be insulted by everything said by anyone
Nice info but there is no heart and soul here.
So I suppose we'd better never try and teach kids about Indians. Better pretend like they didnt exist.
@@rw8185 they should actually talk to Native Americans and let them speak for themselves.
@@SkepticalMantisCHANNEL10 one thing doesnt contradict the other
8:30 those three mannequin on top are creepy asf
Good to see propaganda still going strong even today.Tell the version of history from the conqueror rather than the conquered.
Like you SJW turds believing that the Natives were a peaceful people before the Whites came.
@@jasonpalacios1363 The Natives Weren't A Peaceful People But The Europeans Weren't Peaceful Themselves. None Of The Europeans Or Natives Were Truly Peaceful Really.
I am related to wa ku su to me
The Ice Age happened after the flood because of all the changes due to the flood. So, there were people around during the Ice Age.🤦♀️
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Sister Margaret married Alan Wallace, mother of Sir William Wallace
Wow!
This is MAGNIFICENT! MARVELOUS!!! I wish I could do that for my family tree. As an African American, Ive only gone as far back to 1810. Now Im researching which tribe in Africa, my people are from. I think Im thinkong maybe either Igbo or Mandinka... wish me luck.
they're not INDIAN, they're native American. Indians is the name Christopher Columbus gave to them because he was lost and thought he was in INDIA.
The most respectful way to refer to someone is by how they want to be referred.
If you visit any of the Reservations, you will see that the majority of them prefer to be called American Indian.
.
Of course they know Columbus was a colonizer, but ancestors have been calling themselves "American Indians" for 500 years and have adopted it as theirs.
.
The term "Native American" came from the US government in 1970. This was so they could further erase them and not have to honor historical treaties that were written between the US government and "American Indians."
.
Also, the word Indigenous is from university professors who want to virtue signal. Which is why many young people prefer the word Indigenous.
But "Indigenous" also erases their identity and history. Anything can be "Indigenous" to an area, such as animals and plants, because that just means "something that occurs in an area naturally". There is much more to their identity other than just being Indigenous.
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Saying American Indian is not disrespectful at all, many of them say they prefer American Indian. After losing millions of people and their land, people shouldn't try to take that away from them too.
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One more thing, Columbus couldn't have thought he was in India. In the 1400s the country that is now called "India" was called Hindustan at that time.
And the people were called Bharata. They were also colonized and similarly their colonizers called them "Indian" too.
Indian comes from "in-Dios", meaning of god.
Watt er Lou
I don't think they where here for more than 1000 years.If so they didn't develope much.We had trains,planes,boats,and automobiles in 200 years??
😢 Maybe the Indegenous Natives way of life disturbed Nature way less than the "advanced" European cultures and that is why it was in pristine conditions.
2:10 is creepy
....this video is making me angry 😐... but, I guess that's my fault. Something told me it would piss me off but I clicked anyway 🤷🏾♀️
liberal
@@tricial865 🤨 huh lol how? And I don't subscribe to any political party...
We wuz indians.
misterodors
Shut your filthy mouth, disease spreader.
As a descendant of the lenape this is pure bs🤦🏾♀️