This Very Ground, This Crooked Affair: A Mennonite Homestead on Lenape Land
Ruth's volume connects the centuries-old history of the author's Pennsylvania Mennonite homestead with that of the land’s indigenous Lenape inhabitants, interweaving documented Pennsylvania history with the national pursuit of a Doctrine of Discovery—and the story of Mennonites who had themselves fled suffering and landlessness with the fates of Native Americans continent-wide.