Introducing GIC’s Lenape Garden	Print Issue
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The Lenape Garden behind the Greenfield Intercultural Center will be open during the Powwow. The Garden is in the shape of a tortoise, a significant symbol of the Lenape people, original Americans who lived around the Delaware and Susquehanna rivers for 10,000 years. GIC Director Valerie De Cruz applied for a Green Fund grant to create a garden, primarily to establish and reinforce a sense of place for Penn’s Native American community and to educate the public about the Lenape who first called the Delaware Valley home.

The GIC’s tortoise—with locally cut fieldstone as its head, feet and tail and green sod as its shell—is surrounded with native trees, shrubs and perennials that had been used by the Lenape for millennia for their medicinal and culinary needs. The Lenape Garden behind the Greenfield Intercultural Center will welcome visitors during Natives at Penn’s 5th Annual Powow on March 29.

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