The Lenape in Greenland in 1000 AD lived in large sod houses with sod roofs.
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There were about 280 houses with fourteen (14) people in each house. This number per house might imply that there were two families in each house.
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How many people in a family?
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How many people in Greenland?
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There was one family to tend the European livestock: the goats, geese, pigs, ponies, and cattle. The Christian Lenape had an almost religious behavior toward cows.
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In their old religion, the Odin religion, one of the first supernatural creatures was a cow licking a frozen giant form.
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But, by 1,000, the glaciers had receded long ago. No Christian Lenape remembered the other glaciers or the grass that grew in the moist earth left by glaciers.
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Yet that was where
they chose to live--
they chose to live--
on grass lands near a glacier.
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The Lenape behavior may have been engrained in their residual memory of ancient cows that grazed the grass to provide the protein for the life of their ancestors.
Can you visualize cows
licking a glacier?
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The second family was, perhaps, the fishermen and seal hunters. Eighty percent of the Lenape diet came from the sea.
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But only the eldest son and his family could expect to inherit the father's share of the house.
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The other brothers had to HUNT for a new place to live. They were loved, but not wanted, at home. They grew to be the
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