Lowan - winter 

Péhewe na kun - The snow is waiting

Winigischuch - Time of the falling snows

Mechakhokque - When the cold makes the trees crack

Anixi Gischuch - Time when the ground squirrels run 

Lenape Wuskén

(Lenape News)

NEWS Just IN~

Native Internships & Scholarships offered by the USDA for 2011

Check the site below for high school, college, graduate and experienced professional opportunities!

http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahome?navid=INTERN_SCHOLAR

U.S. Mint to Launch 2011 Native American $1 Coin in Plymouth

The 2011 Native American $1 Coin will be launched at U.S. Mint in Plymouth, Mass., on Jan. 12.

Starting in 2009, the U.S. Mint began minting and issuing $1 coins featuring designs celebrating the important contributions made by Indian tribes and individual Native Americans to the history and development of the United States. The program was created by the Native American $1 Coin Act (Public Law 110-82).

The 2011 coin’s reverse features the hands of the Supreme Sachem Ousamequin Massasoit and Governor John Carver, symbolically offering the ceremonial peace pipe after the initiation of the first formal written peace alliance between the Wampanoag Tribe and European settlers. The additional inscription is “WAMPANOAG TREATY 1621.”

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Seasonal Activities - you can find many of these activities depicted in our book When the Shadbush Blooms  

Siquon (Spring): fishing, Corn Planting Ceremony, planting, "football" (soccer).  

Kschilandeke (Summer): garden work, berry picking, seashore vacations and mountain trips, hunting, preparing skins, weaving mats, swimming.

Tachquoak (Fall): hunting, harvesting and drying foods, fruits, vegetables, and meats, Thanksgiving.  

Lowan (Winter): indoor activities - storytelling, pick-up sticks, making toys, constructing wampum and arrowheads, other small projects including learning Lenape picture written history, and doing "homework". Outdoor activities - snowball fights, sledding, snowshoeing, hunting.