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Designating May 1, 2005, as "Tamanend's Day" in Pennsylvania. The Continental Congress, meeting in Philadelphia, in 1777, set aside the first of May for the annual honoring of the Lenape sachem Tamanend, who made the Great Treaty with William Penn at the founding of Pennsylvania.
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE RESOLUTION

No. 160 Session of 2005

INTRODUCED BY ROONEY, GRUCELA, WATERS, LEDERER, CALTAGIRONE, ROSS, HENNESSEY, BALDWIN, LESCOVITZ, FREEMAN, HERSHEY, FORCIER, MELIO, BEBKO-JONES, BELARDI, READSHAW, GOODMAN, B. SMITH, THOMAS, RAPP, STABACK, SHANER, SEMMEL, JAMES, WOJNAROSKI, PHILLIPS, SATHER, SCAVELLO, MAJOR, YOUNGBLOOD AND PISTELLA,

MARCH 21, 2005 INTRODUCED AS NONCONTROVERSIAL RESOLUTION UNDER RULE 35,

MARCH 21, 2005
A RESOLUTION

1 Designating May 1, 2005, as "Tamanend's Day" in Pennsylvania.

2 WHEREAS, The Continental Congress, meeting in Philadelphia,

3 in 1777, set aside the first of May for the annual honoring of

4 the Lenape sachem Tamanend, who made the Great Treaty with

5 William Penn at the founding of Pennsylvania; and

6 WHEREAS, This action of the Continental Congress was duly

7 ratified and supported by the Constitutional Assembly of

8 Pennsylvania, established in 1776; and

9 WHEREAS, The Delaware (Lenape) Nation was the first to

10 recognize and treaty with the United States of America in 1778

11 and in other ways contributed to this country and this

12 Commonwealth; therefore be it

13 RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives designate May 1,

14 2005, as "Tamanend's Day" in Pennsylvania, for the recognition

15 of this great man and this great people.

The historical facts about Tamanend are based on some eight documents from the first fourteen years of Pennsylvania history. To these facts we can add the little that is known about the Lenape Indians.

TAMANEND 1683
By Gus Wiencke

TAMANEND was partner with William Penn in a boldly conceived agreement dated 1683 that Europeans and Indians would live together in peace as long as the creeks and rivers run and while the sun, moon, and stars endure.

Penn's unprecedented Indian treaties captured the imagination of Europe. Voltaire wrote about them as portent of a new age and an exception to European extermination and expulsion or even enslavement of the American Indians.

As an Indian, Tamanend trusted Penn and his lofty ideal of a commonwealth of freedom, peace, and tolerance for all inhabitants.

Full History report:
http://www.southamptonpa.com/tamanend.html

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