The true origin of canonization and beatification must be sought in the Catholic doctrine of the worship (cultus), invocation, and intercession of the saints. As was taught by St. Augustine (Quaest. in Heptateuch., lib.
Some of the Lenape lived in large villages of two to three hundred people, but most of them lived in small bands of 25 to 50 people. 1  Families were important to the Lenape Indians. 2  The Lenape had three clans (or phratries) â Wolf, Turtle and Turkey â which traced their descent through the female line.
Our Lenape ancestors were those who inhabited New Jersey, Delaware, southern New York and eastern Pennsylvania at the time the Europeans came. We called ourselves Lenni-Lenape, which literally means Men of Men, but is translated to mean Original People..