Dr. Camilla Townsend discusses the book On the Turtle’s Back: Stories the Lenape Told Their Grandchildren she co-authored with Nicky Kay Michael. The Lenape tribe, also known as the Delaware Nation, inhabited the region now comprising eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and parts of New York, Connecticut, and Maryland for centuries. However, America’s independence from the British displaced the tribe west to Indiana, then Missouri, and finally the territory that became Oklahoma. The Lenape could not carry much from their ancestral homeland, but they ensured their stories were preserved and passed down through generations.