So, despite this course being food-based, I was a bit shocked in seeing that the Lenapes weren’t very patriarchal, not nearly as much as I’d have expected a society thousands of years ago. In one paragraph, it’s stated that the women were given large roles in communal affairs and were able to get a divorce without much hassle, as well as retain their lineage and their children. I found that rather revolutionary. So, were the Lenapes just one of the odd groups that held women to an equal/almost-equal standard as men, or was it just that, at that time period, males and females weren’t treated in such an unequal manner?

Also, as a side comment, I think it’s rather ironic that the Lenapes were apparently barbarous and primitive, yet their progress in gender division appeared to be much better than societies of nowadays.