by KYW's Karin Phillips

A new exhibit at the Penn museum tells the long untold stories of the Lenape Native Americans of Pennsylvania. The exhibit opens September 13th.

Chief Bob 'Red Hawk' Ruth of the Turtle Clan of the Lenape of Pennsylvania is a descendant of the Lenape nation that stayed here in Pennsylvania in the 19th century, when many other Lenape left brutality, racism, and hatred to establish tribes out west.

Chief Bob (right, holding a clan artifact) says those who stayed behind intermarried and hid their Lenape heritage from the government and others for more than 200 years. 

He says the new exhibit  -- Fulfilling a Prophecy -- is a step forward into the light of the world:

"Instead of having your normal artifacts, we went to peoples' homes, collected things that came down from generations to them. So you can see their grandparents in that moccasin, you can see their great-grandfather in the snowshoes that are here."

(Photos by KYW's Karin Phillips)