On the Turtle's Back: Stories the Lenape Told Their Grandchildren Lumbee Meant for primary grade children

Meant for primary grade children

and her grandmothers taught her to make story quilts and maple candy

a surprising and intimate portrait emerges…a portrait of the scared and traumatized little girl beneath the Jason Voorhees mask: angry

creating harmony and direction for each member of the tribe

self-expression

On the Turtle's Back: Stories the Lenape Told Their Grandchildren Lumbee Meant for primary grade childrenThe Lenape tribe, also known as the Delaware Nation, lived for centuries on the land that English colonists later called New Jersey. But once America gained its independence, they were forced to move further west: to Indiana, then Missouri, and finally to the territory that became Oklahoma. These reluctant migrants were not able to carry much from their ancestral homeland, but they managed to preserve the stories that had been passed down for