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History The nation of Lenni Lenabe is/was the most important nation of Muurs
(natives) in the United States of America’s history. This is due to the fact that if it weren’t
for these indigenous people there would be no United States of America. When William Penn first arrived at this country he was given permission
by the Sagamuurs to set up his government. He was not sold land, he was given
land to occupy. The Lenabe never sold
land because they understood that it was not their land to give. They knew
that the Earth was and still is a gift from Great Spirit to his people
stewarded by a Grand Sachem. Nationality Nationality is very important to the identity of a person or people and
without it they are nameless,
faceless, parentless, beings. Nationality is essential to the Lenni Lenabe
because the settlers once attempted to take it from them causing the
knowledge of themselves to be buried deep inside of family histories so to
the point that even the members themselves (new generations) did not remember
for a very long time. It was only when a 96 year old Nanticoke Lenabe woman brought
the knowledge back to the surface saying, “knowledge of a people cannot be learned from a book”
that the Lenni Lenabe people remember who they were. She made her grandson
Kacheh Sachem and the people have been living their Lenabe life ever since. Early Lenabe Society Lenni Lenabe were a nation of original people that although the European
Paradigm tried to classify according to language as opposed to national
bloodline, had all of the usual structures of a nation and an independent
people i.e., language, law, and authority.
Classifying a people by their language is a futile endeavor especially
in the case of Lenabe since the language was as universal then as English is
today. Classifying every Native
American by language as opposed to national ancestry is like saying that all
English speaking people are from the European race. Many Lenabe and other
races of people speak English today, however that does not mean that they are
European. The head of the Lenabe nation was known as the Kacheh Sachem or the
Great Chief, which was a title of Authority that represented the fact that he
knew the ancient culture story of his people and how to speak about it. Early Lenabe life was disease and crime free until the settlers came to
this fine country. They brought with them low morals and poor behavior. The
indigenous people that were celebrated worldwide did not aggress them
initially because it was the policy of the land to treat all people well,
however it soon became obvious that war with the settlers who were new to the
land would be inevitable, therefore the ancient Lenabe assembled the warriors
of Mijowe (Lenabe Martial Arts) and took to the warpath against what they
considered beast that walked and talked like men. |