Umm, enough with the stupid white guilt. The indigenous people always get the shaft when a modern culture moves in, especially when they bring along all their happy diseases. For every person they may or may not have killed, they likely killed another hundred simply by bringing the illnesses of Europe to the region.
There. The truth, the bugs did it. Now instead of dreaming up new ways to demean everyone, especially those Lenape who shockingly have survived with tribal identity intact, how about spending the time educating the children so that the last remnants of the diseases brought along can finally be put to rest? Seems far more productive, and far more understandable than a meaningless apology for events that took place nearly half a millennium ago.
80 generations?
Good golly. As a genealogist - well, just taking my own family tree back to the Mayflower (same time period) - many of whom were my 7th and 8th great great parents - that would make 10-11 generations.
Not to mention, if every generation were only 20 years - in 400 years, that is only 20 generations, not 80. 80 x's 20 would be 1,600 years.