Daily News | Woman finally finds a steward for historic Chesco Native American burial ground: A tribe in Oklahoma
Members of the Lenape people gathered on an unrecorded date likely in the 18th century to bury one of their dead atop a peaceful knoll overlooking the west branch of Brandywine Creek.customarily pointed his head eastThe body lie undisturbed until 1899 when two Swarthmore professors dug up the skeleton, as well as objects buried alongside it, and moved it all to the college — a practice not uncommon by white people, both professional and amateur.
Most of those contacting her said they were affiliated with Native American groups, though McCloskey had no way of tracing which were credible, or would make sound stewards.A Chester County woman wants to donate a Native American burial ground. It’s a complicated process.“I find peace in knowing that the land will always belong to its rightful owners,” McCloskey said this week. “I knew that this day would come, but I had no idea how long it would take.
But they called themselves the Lenape , meaning simply “The People,” part of the Algonquian language family, and among the first groups to encounter European settlersColonists took advantage of the Lenape through treaties, leaving them landless and poor. Unable to even farm for food, the Lenape migrated, ending up in Oklahoma and Canada, still carrying their colonial name with them.
McCloskey held the lot for decades. As part of her estate planning, she sought in recent years to donate it to a group affiliated with the Lenape, believing they were the rightful owners, but found it hard to find takers. Last June, she reached out to the Inquirer, which began researching the land and documenting its importance.
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