Podcasts about lenape indians

Riding this rocket toward my 67th birthday, memories of my life flicker in the twilight of my mind like shooting stars in the night.My gaze lingers on a long-ago day when I began writing ads for a jeweler.I saw the cover of a book that said, “Follow Your Passion. The Money Will Follow,” and remember thinking, “I would hate to become famous for writing ads for a product I couldn't care less about.”“Follow your passion” is an idea that makes sense until you think about it.I had no appreciation, no affection, no commitment to jewelry. But I did make a commitment to the jeweler. My job was to communicate his appreciation of jewelry, his affection for it, his commitment to it.For a quarter of a century I wrote ads for my friend that made both of us famous. He died unexpectedly in a frozen moment a dozen years ago.I continue to have his number programmed into my iPhone and there is part of me that believes if I touch his name with my finger he will answer and bellow “Good mornin', Sunshine!” before the second ring.There is another part of me that knows I will be shattered if he does not answer. His name will continue on my phone, and I will continue not to touch it.Our friendship of 25 years taught me an important life-lesson I will now share with you:Commitment does not flow from passion. Passion flows from commitment.I do not have to love the products I write about. I have to love the people who are going to sign their names to what I write. My words are spoken from their hearts, not my own.Lest you think I am wandering aimlessly down Melancholy Lane, I will push my point home like a syringe:Are you one of those sad-eyed souls who sigh and say, “I'm searching for my passion. I just don't seem to be able to find my passion. What's wrong with me? Why can't I find my passion?”Yes, the needle hurts, but there is medicine flowing through it.Every form of work is for the benefit of other people. You do not need to love the work to be happy. You need to love the difference you are making.Are you ready for me to push the needle a little deeper?You will never discover happiness when you work only for yourself. You will discover the joy of life when you work for the benefit of others. I believe the need to serve other people is hard-wired into the body, soul, and spirit of every person who walks upon this planet.Self-centered people can have pleasure, of course. But they can never have happiness.I'm sorry, but the needle still has to go deeper.These two quotes by Tom Robbins fit together perfectly although they were written 20 years apart.“Among our egocentric sad-sacks, despair is as addictive as heroin and more popular than sex, for the single reason that when one is unhappy one gets to pay a lot of attention to oneself. Misery becomes a kind of emotional masturbation (2005).* The unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwelling on himself and start paying attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence. When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. You get to take yourself oh so very seriously (1985).*”– Tom RobbinsThe needle is now all the way in.This is the pure, uncut medicine: The next time you see a need, step up and fill it. Experience the joy of making a difference. Do this ten times and you will be addicted to happiness for the rest of your life.Pay it forward.Roy H. WilliamsDutch explorers in 1625 found a forested island between the East and Hudson rivers known to the Lenape Indians as “Manhattan.”Every square inch of that island was developed in the ensuing 400 years except for a 6.7-acre plot...

On this show we will reach into the vaults with a 2004 interview with the late Doctor Richard William Lenk, a long-standing member of the American Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians Doctor Lenk was also a professor emeritus at Bergen Community College. When First lady Jill Biden visited Bergen Community College in January of 2022 she became one of the most prominent individuals to visit the Paramus, New Jersey campus. But to help us discover how other individuals like the Lenape Indians, the Marquis de Lafayette, Legs Diamond and Dutch Schultz also took part in the history of Bergen Community College in 2004 I had the honor of interviewing Doctor Lenk. For a transcript of this show please click on this link: https://fantasypuppettheater.com/History_of_Bergen_Community_College_Transcript.pdf

Justin Davidson, architecture & classical music critic, New York magazine-author of "Magnetic City: A Walking Companion to New York," summarizes New York-the real estate deal between the Dutch and the Lenape Indians- as everyone's story of who comes here.

Pennsylvania, 1764 - four Lenape Indians creep into Enoch Brown's schoolhouse; massacring the schoolmaster and ten children. Is this the first rampage killing in an American school? In this episode, we venture far and wide, through two wars, vigilantism and a scalp bounty in an effort to answer that question.

Lenape Country is a sweeping narrative history of the multiethnic society of the Delaware Valley in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. After Swanendael, the Natives, Swedes, and Finns avoided war by focusing on trade and forging strategic alliances in such events as the Dutch conquest, the Mercurius affair, the Long Swede conspiracy, and English attempts to seize land. Drawing on a wide range of sources, author Jean R. Soderlund demonstrates that the hallmarks of Delaware Valley society—commitment to personal freedom, religious liberty, peaceful resolution of conflict, and opposition to hierarchical government—began in the Delaware Valley not with Quaker ideals or the leadership of William Penn but with the Lenape Indians, whose culture played a key role in shaping Delaware Valley society. The first comprehensive account of the Lenape Indians and their encounters with European settlers before Pennsylvania's founding, Lenape Country places Native culture at the center of this part of North America. Jean Soderlund is Professor of History at Lehigh University and editor of William Penn and the Founding of Pennsylvania: A Documentary History, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Can the spoken word be a reliable record of past events? For many Native people, the answer is unequivocally affirmative. Histories of family, tribe, and nation, narratives of origin and migration, foodways and ceremonies, and the provisions of countless treaties have been passed down through successive generations without written documents. The colonizing society has maintained a starkly different view, elevating the written word to a position of authority and dismissing the authenticity of oral tradition. Are these two views irreconcilable? Exploring the contested memorialization of four controversial episodes in the history of the Delaware (or Lenape) Indians’ encounter with settlers, Andrew Newman finds unexpected connections between colonial documents, recorded oral traditions, and material culture. On Records: Delaware Indians, Colonists, and the Media of History and Memory (University of Nebraska Press, 2012) is a thoughtful meditation on how we know the past. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Can the spoken word be a reliable record of past events? For many Native people, the answer is unequivocally affirmative. Histories of family, tribe, and nation, narratives of origin and migration, foodways and ceremonies, and the provisions of countless treaties have been passed down through successive generations without written documents. The colonizing society has maintained a starkly different view, elevating the written word to a position of authority and dismissing the authenticity of oral tradition. Are these two views irreconcilable? Exploring the contested memorialization of four controversial episodes in the history of the Delaware (or Lenape) Indians’ encounter with settlers, Andrew Newman finds unexpected connections between colonial documents, recorded oral traditions, and material culture. On Records: Delaware Indians, Colonists, and the Media of History and Memory (University of Nebraska Press, 2012) is a thoughtful meditation on how we know the past. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Can the spoken word be a reliable record of past events? For many Native people, the answer is unequivocally affirmative. Histories of family, tribe, and nation, narratives of origin and migration, foodways and ceremonies, and the provisions of countless treaties have been passed down through successive generations without written documents. The colonizing society has maintained a starkly different view, elevating the written word to a position of authority and dismissing the authenticity of oral tradition. Are these two views irreconcilable? Exploring the contested memorialization of four controversial episodes in the history of the Delaware (or Lenape) Indians’ encounter with settlers, Andrew Newman finds unexpected connections between colonial documents, recorded oral traditions, and material culture. On Records: Delaware Indians, Colonists, and the Media of History and Memory (University of Nebraska Press, 2012) is a thoughtful meditation on how we know the past. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Can the spoken word be a reliable record of past events? For many Native people, the answer is unequivocally affirmative. Histories of family, tribe, and nation, narratives of origin and migration, foodways and ceremonies, and the provisions of countless treaties have been passed down through successive generations without written documents. The colonizing society has maintained a starkly different view, elevating the written word to a position of authority and dismissing the authenticity of oral tradition. Are these two views irreconcilable? Exploring the contested memorialization of four controversial episodes in the history of the Delaware (or Lenape) Indians’ encounter with settlers, Andrew Newman finds unexpected connections between colonial documents, recorded oral traditions, and material culture. On Records: Delaware Indians, Colonists, and the Media of History and Memory (University of Nebraska Press, 2012) is a thoughtful meditation on how we know the past. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices