WEBINAR – The People of the Delaware: The Lenape in Peace and War
November 5 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
The Lenape-Delaware People were a confederation of communities, peaceful farmers, fishermen, and hunters. For a generation, they were treated with scorn as “women, good only for raising corn.” Berated, dispossessed and repeatedly betrayed by their allies, both red and white, the Delaware were forced to flee westward from their ancestral homes. There they underwent a transformation of identity, generated powerful new leadership, and developed into the fiercest and most devastating warriors of the Ohio Frontier. Rick Durham, from the Ewing Township Historic Preservation Society, discusses the domination and subjugation of the Lenape-Delaware, both by arms and artifice, by their powerful Iroquois Nation rivals; their resurging influence during the French & Indian Wars, the American Revolution, the Tecumseh Rebellion of the Northwest, and beyond.
Rick Durham (B.A. History; M.Ed.) is a member of the Ewing Township Historic Preservation Society as a Research Advisor. He relocated from Braintree, Massachusetts (a suburb of Boston) in 2018. There he served ten years on the Board of Directors of the Braintree Historical Society, and from 2008-2018 was recognized as Braintree Town Historian. Rick has been a Mayflower Society member since 1962. A two-time descendant of the Mayflower Pilgrims, Rick has lectured extensively on the Mayflower Experience, and was a keynote speaker for The Mayflower Society of New Jersey.
