Lenape time of sustained European contact in the 1600s and 1700s the Lenape were a powerful Native American nation who inhabited a region on the mid-Atlantic coast spanning the latitudes of southern Massachusetts to the southern extent of Delaware in what anthropologists call the Northeastern Woodlands. Although never politically unified, the confederation of the Delaware roughly encompassed the area around and between the Delaware and lower Hudson rivers, and included the western part of Long Island in present-day New York. Some of their place names, such as Manhattan ("the island of many hills"), Raritan, and Tappan were adopted by Dutch and
Native American peoples of Oregon boarding schools, which were meant to assimilate the children to white settler culture which could be brought back to their home communities. In 1850, Anson Dart was appointed the Superintendent for Indian Affairs in the Oregon Territory. In order to pursue the interests of the United States, Dart worked to craft the Anson Dart Treaties. These treaties promised reservation land, school, medical care, and safety from settler aggression. In return, the United States would absorb a vast amount of land. In particular, Congress was interested in removing native peoples from the fertile land in the Willamette Valley. Congress eventually rejected