Who were the Lenape and what did they eat?

The Lenape are the original people who inhabited the Delaware Valley before the arrival of the Europeans in the early 1600s. Lenape means “Original People.” They were primarily hunters and farmers. They would have grown corn, beans and squash and would have hunted deer, turkeys and small mammals. In the Brandywine watershed the Lenape would have also fished. For more information check out the official website of the Delaware Tribe of Indians.