But the fight with Champlain, in 1609, by turning them into implacable enemies of the French, had rendered them all the more tolerant of the Dutch and the English, while their complete conquest and subjugation of the Delawares, or Lenni Lenape, prepared the way for the easy settlement of New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
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Penn and the Lenni Lenape.%--These Indians were Algonquian, and lived along the Delaware River and its tributaries.

But early in the seventeenth century they had been reduced to vassalage by the Five Nations, had been forbidden to carry arms, and had been forced to take the name of Women.[1] [Footnote 1: Read Parkman's _Conspiracy of Pontiac_, Vol.

I., pp.

30-32, 80-82.] When the Dutch and Swedes began their settlements on the South River, and when Penn, in 1683, made a treaty with the Delawares, the settlers had to deal with peaceful Indians.