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In 1701, William Penn created a Charter of Privileges for the residents of his colony. Penn envisioned a colony that permitted religious freedom, the consent and participation of the governed, as well as other laws pertaining to property rights.

The crown owed William’s late father, Admiral Sir William Penn, for using his own wealth to outfit and feed the British Navy. Penn approached the King with an offer: Penn would forgive the debt in exchange for land in America. King Charles agreed and granted Penn a Charter on March 4, 1681.

William Penn, (born October 14, 1644, London, England—died July 30, 1718, Buckinghamshire), English Quaker leader and advocate of religious freedom, who oversaw the founding of the American Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as a refuge for Quakers and other religious minorities of Europe.

William Penn, English religious and social reformer and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania, was born on October 14, 1644, in London. After suffering persecution in England for his adopted Quaker faith, Penn would establish freedom of worship for all inhabitants of his North American colony.

In 1684 Penn returned to England to see his family and resolve a territorial dispute. While there he became involved in the problems the Quakers had with the English government. Penn was a Quaker himself, but was able to deflect any personal government actions against him because of the influence of his family.

William Penn believed strongly that Indians should be treated fairly. He traveled to the interior of the colony and befriended different Native American tribes. He insisted that the Native Americans be paid a fair price for any land that was purchased from them.

William Penn’s relationship with the Native Americans was a good one. William Penn had no desire to take away the land of the Native Americans. He was a peaceful man and, to show his intentions, he did not fortify Philadelphia. William Penn wanted to have good relations with the Native Americans.

Penn created a town at the mouth of the Delaware River to promote commerce and government; he named the town, Philadelphia, which was Greek for “city of brotherly love.” To ensure his colony would remain peaceful, Penn purchased the land from the local Native Americans before settlement took place.

The Iroquois rebuilt their empire after the French and Indian war, and as they did were linked into Pennsylvania’s covenant chain of friendship. This relationship was formalized in a series of treaties in the first half of the 18th century, and gave the colony access to valuable trading routes and partners.

Clan Symbols: These represent the three clans of the Lenape: Turtle, Wolf and Turkey.

They are working to keep their culture alive including their land, language, arts, and ceremonies. Today they continue to fight for sovereignty, civil rights and the health and well-being of their people. The story of the Lenni-Lenape did not end with the removal from their land.

For many years, the Iroquois and the Lenape lived in peace. Over time the Iroquois became jealous of the growing power of the Lenape. Upon finding out what the Iroquois had done, the Lenape declared war on the Iroquois. The Iroquois were defeated forcing them to confederate their tribes into the Five Nations.

or the “true people.” This tribe is also known as the Delaware Indians. Their settlements were often along the Delaware River. Once the European settlers came, the tribe became known as the Delaware because the Europeans often named the native people after the area where they lived. The Lenape had an organized society.

There are only two federally recognized Delaware tribes in the U.S., and both of them are in Oklahoma, where large groups of the Lenape ended up due to forced migration. The Lenape who remained in their native lands still have descendants in the area, even if they aren’t part of an official tribe.

Process for land acknowledgements

1. Name which Indigenous territories you are currently on.
2. Explain why you are acknowledging the land.
3. Address the relevance of Indigenous rights to the subject matter of your event or meeting or to your activist work in general.

Since most land was “ceded” using treaties, it may appear that Native Americans gave up their land willingly and peacefully, but in many cases they had no other options and handed over the land though bribery or force. The government also used federal legislation and executive order to take land from natives.

Treaty 6 included terms that had not been incorporated into Treaties 1 to 5, including a medicine chest at the house of the Indian agent on the reserve, protection from famine and pestilence, more agricultural implements, and on-reserve education.

Unceded means that First Nations people never ceded or legally signed away their lands to the Crown or to Canada.

To be more precise: the Maritimes, nearly all of British Columbia and a large swath of eastern Ontario and Quebec, which includes Ottawa, sit on territories that were never signed away by the Indigenous people who inhabited them before Europeans settled in North America. In other words, this land was stolen.

At 1,413.87 km2 (545.90 sq mi), this is the largest reserve in Canada, and the third most populous after Six Nations and Akwesasne….

Most of B.C. remains unceded territory. In 1867, Canada assumed the role of the Crown in taking over Indian Affairs. The new dominion promised to continue the previous rights granted to Indigenous peoples, including the 1763 Declaration.