WORN OUT LAND

was left for the young Lenape hunters and their families.
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Trees can send roots deep for water.   The roots may grow  through cracks in rocks to find water.   But  water must be there.  If there is no water a tree dies.  

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When a tree dies it usually does not grow again.  A dead tree is difficult for humans and most animals to eat. 

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Grass behaves differently.  The roots go down only so far.  If there is no water. The grass goes dormant.  Grass waits until water comes from the sky.  Then grass grows again.  

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The standing dormant grass on a treeless plain catches some of the snow that blows by,  When the snow melts in the spring there is water so the grass can grow again.

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Dormant grass can be eaten by cows because their digestive system was developed so cows could live on grass--growing or dormant.  Humans live by eating cows.

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So what happened,

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when the Lenape and European livestock came ashore in a land of grass?

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Maybe the cows lived through the winters because the cows  ate the dormant grass. Then the humans ate a few of the cows.

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But less grass was left to catch the snow.  In the spring there may have been less snow melt.  That would have resulted in less growing grass. The cows would have eatem all they could find.  The Lenape would gather hay for the cows in winter.

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Do you think that 

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there was more or less
grass each year?

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the Lenape may have
believed, each year,

  that the winds were blowing

 DRY dirt at them?

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the priest was so harried 
that he may have believed 

he was trapped in a place 

where he was upside down?

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Do you have any doubt

the priest may have told 
the young Lenape that they
should go to a better place?
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What would you do
if your big brother
gave you the worn out land?
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WOULD YOU LOOK 

FOR WILD RICE?. >

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