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There is very little opportunity to live the historic lifestyle of the Lenni Lenape (or Delaware) people - and there are elements of that life that would probably be repugnant to many modern white people.

Some aspects of the Lenape culture are:

  • growing maize, beans and squash, usually all together so the beans grow up the maize plants
  • making wampum from sea shells
  • hunting deer and other game, catching birds and fishing
  • adopting some captured enemies, savagely torturing others
  • complex clan systems
  • women wearing only a wrap-around buckskin skirt, men just a breechclout in hot weather
  • constant warfare with the Iroquois tribes
  • villages of longhouses covered with birch bark sheets
  • surplus food buried in caches lined with marsh grass
  • sweatlodges for purification rituals
  • making shëwahsapan (grape dumplings)
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