L.C.W. The treaty tree old and young. n.p., n.d.

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This brief publication tells a fictitious story of the Penn Treaty in what appears to be Quaker propaganda. At the beginning of the story, a beautiful Lenape woman is moved by Penn’s religious preaching, while her peers are portrayed as greedily focusing on the European goods. This story follows in the footsteps of West and other white Americans, part of a long history of demonizing the Lenape in order to heighten the sense of Quaker benevolence and godliness in the myth of the Penn Treaty.