Explore the rich history of the Lenape’s heritage and culture. Topics also include the infamous Walking Purchase and Christian missionary efforts. Visit the following sites to experience the story:
Lenape Nation of Pennsylvania Cultural Center
Visit our Cultural Center and Trading Post to browse artifacts, read educational pamphlets, speak to our curators, or tour our Fulfilling a Prophecy: The Past and Present of the Lenape in Pennsylvania exhibit.
Museum of Indian Culture
Our mission is to preserve and perpetuate the authentic histories and cultural heritage of Native American peoples–past, present, and future. For more than forty-five years, the museum has offered guided tours, educational exhibits, programs, internships, and collaborative community events for the greater Lehigh Valley and beyond. Changing exhibitions include Native American beadwork, basketry, pottery, toys and games, and archaeological materials. Educational kiosks are placed through a designated part of an ancient Lenape trail that runs through the grounds called the Oley Path. In partnership with the City of Allentown, Parks and Recreation, the museum is also recreating a seventeenth-century historic interpretive Lenape Village along the Lenape Trail. This village will depict Lenape life during the early contact period in an historic interpretive setting. Visitors walking along the village’s serpentine pathway will see a bark-covered Lenape longhouse and wigwams, a hunting and fishing lodge where fishing nets and a dugout canoe will be made, a three sisters garden, a Lenape kitchen with an outdoor fire pit, as well as early European trade goods.
Northampton County Historical and Genealogical Society
Prior to European settlement the Lenape occupied territory that included Northampton County. The Northampton County Historical and Genealogical Society’s Sigal Museum features an exhibition which presents the story of the tribe, their lifestyle, and their relationship with European settlers including with William Penn and the infamous “Walking Purchase”. Exhibition highlights include a lifesize wikewam and the 1758 Treaty of Easton.
