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Traditional gambling among the Lenape
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FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 2002 "The Lenape believed that gambling among their ancestors played a significant role in their everyday lives, in the success and failure of their crops, in their ultimate survival. These Algonquin people, who hunted, fished and farmed throughout Lenapehoking β what is today southeastern New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware β as far back as 1,300 years ago, believed that the seasons changed as the result of wagers placed by the four ancestors who governed the directions β east, south, west and north. "On earth, the seasons are governed by manetuwak who watch over the four quarters of the world," wrote Herbert C. Kraft in his 1986 book ;The Lenape.'" Get the Story:
Gambling was big with Sullivan's Indians long ago (The Middletown Times Herald-Record 3/1)
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