Removing Natives from their Land

Back on Saturday, September 21, 2019 Wrightstown Monthly Meeting was the starting point for the The Walking Purchase Healing Journey produced by the Lenape Nation of Pennsylvania and the Bachmann Players of Easton.

The “Walking Purchase” or“Walking Purchase Hoax” was a dubious treaty forced upon the Lenape tribe by the sons of William Penn in 1737, which removed them from prime hunting lands from Wrightstown to Jim Thorpe, incorporating an amount of land approximately the size of present day Rhode Island.

View more background information here.

The following week, our Meeting held a “Courageous Conversation: Seeking Right Relationship With Native Americans”. The starting point for that Conversation was a short QuakerSpeak video (which you can preview at: Seeking Right Relationship With Native Americans).

Now, in response to Land O’ Lakes butter changing their branding, Lakota Man has tweeted: “Story of America captured on a box of butter. They removed the Native but kept the land.”

Very sad… but true.