Ward's Point
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Ward's Point is the southernmost point in the U.S. state of New York and lies within Tottenville, Staten Island, New York City. It is located at the mouth of Arthur Kill, across from Perth Amboy, New
New York City Parks Department "South Pole" marker at Ward's Point
Skeletons of three warriors pierced by arrows uncovered at Burial Ridge.
Bones pierced by arrowheads from skeletons unearthed at Burial Ridge.
Lenape
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The Lenape, also called the Lenni Lenape and Delaware people, are an Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands, who live in the United States and Canada.
Ward's Point
…first documented evidence of Paleo-Indians using the site is from the end of the Early Archaic Period 8,000 years ago. The burial ground—used by the Lenape dating from the Woodland period until relinquishing Staten Island to the Dutch—is the largest pre-European burial ground in New York City and today…
1870 Lenape bandolier bag from Kansas, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Two Delaware Nation citizens, Jennie Bobb and her daughter Nellie Longhat, in Oklahoma, in 1915
Susie Elkhair (Delaware Tribe of Indians, 1845–1925), wearing a ribbonwork shawl and Delaware dress with medallions in Oklahoma
William Penn's 1682 treaty with the Lenape depicted in Penn's Treaty with the Indians, a 1771 portrait by Benjamin West