![]() ![]() Because the Lenapes prized the family so greatly, the premature death of a child often prompted the parents to adopt an outside child-usually a white boy or girl taken during a raid on a colonial township. The Lenapes, who centered their lives around the family, highly valued children and showed deep respect for elders. Women and children often went along on these trips, leaving the elderly behind in the village. But the men also migrated with the seasons, to follow herds and to fish. The Lenape people built permanent dwellings-wigwams and longhouses-and planted various crops (corn, beans, pumpkins, squash, and tobacco). They developed the land only to a limited degree and killed no more than was needed to survive. A religious people, they held deep spiritual beliefs based on the worship of nature. ![]() Women performed most of the farming and domestic chores, while men took care of hunting, fishing, and trading duties. The Lenapes farmed, hunted, fished, and trapped for food and trade. While males served as chiefs, leadership was usually transferred in such a way that the leadership of the community remained in the mother’s family line. In Lenape society, children took the last name of their mother rather than their father, and all property belonged to the females. These communities are thought to have been made up of clans, or family groups, based on the mother’s family lineage. The Lenapes lived in small independent communities located on waterways of the region. they had developed a culture and lifestyle that would persist until European settlers arrived on the East Coast in the 1500s. The Lenape, or Delaware, Indians thrived in the mid-Atlantic region of North America, which they called “Lenapehoking,” for more than three thousand years. Events in History at the Time the Novel Takes Place The Lenapes ![]() domination of third world countries in the 1950s was producing many of the same negative results as the colonization of the American wilderness in the 1750s. Through the novel, Richter attempted to show that U.S. The Light in the Forest reveals the adverse impact that immigrant development had on native peoples and landscapes. Richter had deep feelings for both the Indians and the immigrant-pioneers and saw a distinct connection between American events in the eighteenth and twentieth centuries. As both a journalist and a novelist, he focused on the lives of pioneers and American Indian tribes affected by colonial expansion. A novel sel in Pennsylvania and wilderness to the west (in present-day Ohio) in 1765 published in 1953.Ī boy who has been raised by Delaware Indians is forced to return to his while parents and finds himself caught between two worlds.Įvents in History at the Time the Novel Takes PlaceĮvents in History at the Time the Novel Was WrittenĪ native of Pine Grove, Pennsylvania, Conrad Richter (1890-1968) had a natural love for the woodsy countryside in which he grew up and a deep appreciation of the region’s history. ![]()
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