Together with Mike Dennis of Traditional Earth Skills we’ve created a Lenape Learning Area at the environmental center where students can experience and participate in Native American educational programming including field trips, camps, workshops and special events.

Special Programs

Grinding corn

Coal Burned Bowl and Spoon

Lenape Educational Sign

Corn Cob Dart Toss

Crushing Corn

Hide Tanning

Lenape Garden

Traditional Earth Skills at Lenape Learning Area

Lenape Timeline

Lenape Village Sketch

Indians had no refrigerators, and in warm weather the meat spoiled. To prevent spoilage, some meat and fish were smoked and dried in the sun. Dried meat lasted for a long time. Dried meat could be chewed, or it could be cooked in a soup or stew. Venison, the meat of deer and elk was their largest source of meat.

Lenape Virtual Lesson

The site creates wonderful opportunities for program and event visitors to participate in a variety of experiential hands-on and skill-based activities and crafts.  Some of the offerings have included Three-Sisters Garden planting, Sewing Medicine Bags and Moccasins, Dyeing bracelets with Native Plants, Crushing Corn with Mortar and Pestle, Throwing Corn Cob Darts, Fire-Friction and Fire Building Skills, Cord Making, Simulated Archaeological Digs, Wild Edible and Medicinal Plant Walks and much more.

The Lenape Learning area includes: Wigwam Shelter, Mortar and Pestle Corn Grinder, Garden Area with Deer Antler and Scapula Gardening Tools, Food Cache Pit, Corn Cob Dart Throwing Station, Fish Drying Station and Hide Tanning Display.

These illustrations make for excellent discussion about Lenape Life.

David Alexander is a professional outdoor guide and conservation biologist.  He enjoys making nature more accessible to people and wildlife.  You can follow him at www.natureintoaction.com