Sakima Tamanend Traditional Geocache
ODragon: I'm going to archive this one to open up the area to someone else who might have better luck. This one needs to much love and I don't live far enough.
Thanks to the almost 1,700 people who have found it.
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Second in a line of interestingly placed caches that have easy parking if you have someone to wait in the car. These caches are meant to be quick grabs but not your normal cache and dash. Each one will take you to an interesting site.
This cache is located on Penn's landing on the sidewalk. While it's close to the expressway, there is no reason to be on it.
Artist: Raymond Sandoval
Dedicated: 1995
Location: Front St & Market St
As is reads on the plaque…TAMANEND
In honor of the contributions of Native American Indians – the ancestors, the elders, this generation, and the generations to come – this sculpture commemorates Tamanend, a Sakima, of the Lenni-Lenape nation who reside in the Delaware Valley when Philadelphia, or “Coaquannock” was established.
Tamanend stands on a turtle, which represents mother earth. The eagle, a revered messenger of Great Spirit has a wampum belt in its grasp. This belt recognizes the friendship treaty under the Sackamaxon Elm between William Penn (“Mikwon”), Tamaneno (“the Affable One”), and other leaders of the Lenni-Lenape nation. It reads – ‘to live in peace as long as the waters run in the rivers and creeks and as long as the stars and moon endure.’
Penn dealt with the Lenni-Lenape people when he came to the land given him by the King of England. He bought the land from the Lenni-Lenape through a number of treaties. Tamanend was one of the Sakinmas who played a prominent role as a welcoming delegate on Penn’s arrival in 1682, and in the early treaties of 1683 and 1692.
Tamanend was considered the patron saint of America by the colonist prior to American Independence. Tamanend day was celebrated annualy on May 1st in Philadelphia and bells were rung in his honor.
City of Philadelphia Department of Streets
Delta Group Landscape Architects Engineers, Architects
United American Indians of Delaware Valley
Historic East Market Street Raym
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