Lenni Lenape chief King Tammany was dubbed the “Patron Saint of America” in an earlier, more enlightened time in our nation’s history.
He was the nation’s first patriotic icon an it’s his image that became a part of American sports culture in the early 20th century.
"The American ideals of human right to ‘life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness’ spring chiefly from original American sources and were developed on American soil for untold centuries before Europeans arrived on this continent," historian and biographer of early Americans Joseph White Norwood wrote in his 1938 book "The Tammany Legend."
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