USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -TAMANEND was partner with William Penn in a boldly conceived agreement dated 1683 that Europeans and Indians would live together in peace as long as the creeks and rivers run and while the sun, moon, and stars endure. Penn’s unprecedented Indian treaties captured the imagination of Europe.

Detailed explanation-2: -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.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Treaty of Shackamaxon, also called the Great Treaty and Penn’s Treaty, was a legendary treaty between William Penn and Tamanend of the Lenape signed in 1682. Penn and Tamanend agreed that their people would live in a state of perpetual peace.

Detailed explanation-4: -Commissioned by Thomas Penn, son of Pennsylvania’s founder, this painting depicts a legendary meeting between William Penn and members of the Lenni Lenape tribe at Shackamaxon on the Delaware River.

Detailed explanation-5: -The indigenous people who inhabited the land that became Philadelphia were the Lenape (also Lenni Lenape; their English moniker was “Delaware”); they were displaced by Quakers and other religious minorities that settled the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the late 17th and 18th centuries.