Shades of Death Road
Astonishing Legends
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Shades of Death Road
The Lenny Lenape people had a matrilineal or matriarchal type society where the women had a great deal of power. The men and women were seen as equals, but they also went out of their way to make sure that when they were marrying, they were coming from other clans. When children are born, they're connected to the mother and even if there's an uncle, the mother has a brother, that person is considered closer to the child than the actual father. But we weren't able to find any evidence of a specific conflict that took place there between the Iroquois and the Linnelynope. They were attacked at first from the West by the
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