Lenape Lifeways Family and Village Life 
(Grades 1 to 8)

Fun and age-appropriate!  Details traditional Lenape life in the Eastern Woodlands homeland by focusing on everyday village activities and the roles of men, women and children within the family and community.  Drawings and photographs show how the Lenape dressed, built shelters, grew crops, fished, hunted, cooked, made tools and weapons, treated disease, grew up and more.

Dependent on age and curriculum requirements, the program may touch on topics such as the migration of humans from Siberia, the development of Native American culture areas and later interaction with Europeans and the resultant cultural conflicts which led to Lenape displacement.

The Lenape-Delaware Indian Heritage
(General Audiences)

This engaging and substantive slide-illustrated program is an attempt to reconstruct the life of the Lenape-Delaware people who once populated New Jersey and the surrounding area.  This program will examine Lenape daily life, their legends, art, religious beliefs, customs, traditions, and system of government.

This program will help audiences to develop a historical comprehension of these people and separate misinformation from historical fact.  The presentation covers the region's 12,000 years of Native American prehistory, later European contact and native displacement.