{"id":571,"date":"2008-08-16T05:42:02","date_gmt":"2008-08-16T14:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/?p=571"},"modified":"2008-08-16T06:18:19","modified_gmt":"2008-08-16T14:48:19","slug":"okehocking-preserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furiousdreams.com\/blog\/okehocking-preserve\/","title":{"rendered":"okehocking preserve"},"content":{"rendered":"

hiked through the small Okehocking Preserve <\/a>yesterday, originally a part of the 1682 William Penn land grant, that became\u00c2\u00a0Chester, Philadelphia and Bucks Counties.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

This was Native American land (well, what wasn’t) and is still beautiful, but wooded areas that are left are mostly covered with a northern version of kudzu and other vines. In need of clean up. Butterflies all over the open fields of queen anne’s lace and clover. A sewage treatment plant is using some of the fields for ‘modification’ zones. The butterflies don’t seem to care.<\/p>\n

Penn granted 500 Acres of the preserve to the Lenape Indians\u00c2\u00a0in 1685. As in history of all the states, these original Americans were basically marginalized by about 1730. One generation is all it took to decimate a whole race of people. An overview here<\/a>.<\/div>\n
However, some Lenape remained, intermarried and kept their traditions, language and culture alive, in secret<\/a>.<\/div>\n

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