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.
On that day, four Lenape (Delaware) Indians, armed with tomahawks and other primitive type weapons, entered the log school house where Schoolmaster Enoch Brown and his students were studying. Before he was shot and scalped, Brown pleaded with the Indians to spare the children, but to no avail.