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.
Accounts from early settlers tell us that there were as many as 300-400 Potawatomi camped along the shores of Walled Lake. Reports of indian green corn festivals took place on a cleared piece of land near what was to become the Village and later the City of Walled Lake.