SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE MIDDLE COLONIES NEW YORK DELAWARE NEW JERSEY PENNSYLVANIA
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Squanto
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Iriqois
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Pocahontas
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Tamanend
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Detailed explanation-1: -TAMANEND, A VILLAGE SACHEM Modern anthropologists estimate the population of the Lenni Lenape or Delaware Indians to which Tamanend belonged as between 2, 500 and 12, 000. Their prescence rested light as a bird’s wing over a vast region of forests and streams.
Detailed explanation-2: -By the 1790s, Native Americans and Pennsylvania’s European peoples were permanently estranged from each other, and no Indian nations retained secure possession of homelands within the state’s borders. By 1754, European colonization had substantially altered the location and number of Native Americans in Pennsylvania.
Detailed explanation-3: -Chief Tamanend (est. 1628-1700)-variously called Tammany, Temane, Taminent, etc.-was the principal Lenni-Lenape leader who welcomed William Penn upon his arrival to this region in 1682.
Detailed explanation-4: -Tamanend (historically also known as Taminent, Tammany, Saint Tammany or King Tammany, “the Affable, ") ( c. 1625– c. 1701) was the Chief of Chiefs and Chief of the Turtle Clan of the Lenni-Lenape nation in the Delaware Valley signing the Peace Treaty with William Penn.