Lenape Country Marissa Hall urging faith communities to become

urging faith communities to become intentional spaces of refuge and restoration

more inclusive forms of citizenship

A story that’s all the sweeter for its shadows” (Los Angeles Review of Books)

if Princess Diana were to become Saint Diana

and farsightedness to right its course for generations to come

Lenape Country Marissa Hall urging faith communities to becomeIn 1631, when the Dutch tried to develop plantation agriculture in the Delaware Valley, the Lenape Indians destroyed the colony of Swanendael and killed its residents. The Natives and Dutch quickly negotiated peace, avoiding an extended war through diplomacy and trade. The Lenapes preserved their political sovereignty for the next fifty years as Dutch, Swedish, Finnish, and English colonists settled the Delaware Valley. The European outposts did not