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This Very Ground, This Crooked Affair: A Mennonite Homestead on Lenape Land Anabaptist go into more detail forRuth's volume connects the centuries old history of the author's Pennsylvania Mennonite homestead with that of the lands indigenous Lenape inhabitants, interweaving documented Pennsylvania history with the national pursuit of a Doctrine of Discoveryand the story of Mennonites who had themselves fled suffering and landlessness with the fates of Native Americans continent wide.