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1. William Penn

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   Relationship with the Lenape and Treaty Obligations
   Penn famously maintained a policy of fair dealing with the indigenous inhabitants, chiefly the Lenape (Delaware) people. The Great Treaty of Shackamaxon (1682) stands as a pivotal, if heavily mythologized, event where Penn allegedly purchased land according to established Native protocols, rather than by simple decree [6]. Penn stipulated that the colonists should treat the natives with "brotherly lo…