Tamanend
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Tamanend ("the Affable"; ), historically also known as Taminent, Tammany, Saint Tammany or King Tammany, was the Chief of Chiefs and Chief of the Turtle (Pùkuwànku) clan of the Lenni-Lenape nation in the Delaware Valley signing the founding peace treaty with William Penn.
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Pennsylvania
- Active from
- 1952-08-10
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Delaware Nation
- Place of birth
- North America
- Place of death
- North America
- Occupation
- traditional leader or chief
- Image
- Treaty of Penn with Indians by Benjamin West.jpg
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- Commons category
- Tamanend
- feast day
- May 1
- date of birth
- 1628-01-01
- date of death
- 1698-01-01
- canonization status
- saint
- described by source
- Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Life and legend
- Legacy
- Tammany Societies
- Tammany Festivals
- Dramatic and literary representations, and musical references
- Statues, monuments, and memorials
- Namesakes
- See also
- References
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Tamanend ("the Affable"; ), historically also known as Taminent, Tammany, Saint Tammany or King Tammany, was the Chief of Chiefs and Chief of the Turtle (Pùkuwànku) clan of the Lenni-Lenape nation in the Delaware Valley signing the founding peace treaty with William Penn.
Also called a "Patron Saint of America", Tamanend represented peace and amity, and became a popular figure in 18th-century America, especially in Philadelphia. A Tammany society founded in Philadelphia holds an annual Tammany festival. Tammany societies (Tammany Hall being the most well-known and influential) were established across the United States after the American Revolutionary War, and Tammany assumed mythic status as an icon for the peaceful politics of negotiation.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tamanend” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.