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The Delaware Tribe of Indians, or the Eastern Delaware, based in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, is one of three federally recognized tribes of the Lenape people in the United States. The others are the Delaware Nation based in Anadarko, Oklahoma , [ 1 ] and the Stockbridge-Munsee Community of Wisconsin .
Johnson and the other four members of a delegation from the Delaware Tribe of Indians performed a traditional tribal dance, told a folktale that predated European colonization of the area now ...
Two Delaware Nation citizens, Jennie Bobb and her daughter Nellie Longhat, in Oklahoma, in 1915 [6]. The Lenape (English: / l ə ˈ n ɑː p i /, /-p eɪ /, / ˈ l ɛ n ə p i /; [7] [8] Lenape languages: [lənaːpe] [9]), also called the Lenni Lenape [10] and Delaware people, [11] are an Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands, who live in the United States and Canada.
At the time of the arrival of the Europeans in the 16th and 17th centuries, the Lenape homeland ranged along the Atlantic's coast from western Connecticut to Delaware, which generally encompassed the territory adjacent to the Delaware and lower Hudson river valleys, as well the hill-and-ridge dominated territory between them.
In 1996 after a long struggle with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Lenape gained federal recognition as the Delaware Tribe of Indians headquartered in Bartlesville, Okla. Ongoing genealogical ...
Further, the Indians' greatest offense was tolerating the European settlers on their lands. The Master of Life promised to restore the lands with game and prosperity if the Indians returned to monogamous sexuality, lived by the bow and arrow, dressed themselves in animal skins, stopped drinking alcohol, and rejected "further European incursions".
Confronting encroachment on their land by Europeans, in 1707 the tribe purchased a 3,000-acre tract on Broad Creek in Somerset County, Maryland (now Sussex County, Delaware). In 1742, the tribe met with neighboring tribes in nearby Wimbesoccom Neck to discuss a Shawnee plot to attack the local English settlers. When the gathering was discovered ...
The Delaware Tribe met Saturday in prayer, ceremonial cedar smoke and song to bless the ground for a Delaware Veterans Memorial Wall.