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.
Learning Lenape by John Kraft. For over 12,000 years the Lenape and their ancestors occupied northwestern New Jersey. Who were they? How did they live? What kinds of tools did they make and use? Archaeologists have been trying to answer these questions for over a century.