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A mass grave being dug for frozen bodies from the 1890 Wounded Knee massacre, in which the U.S. Army killed 150 Lakota people, marking the end of the American Indian Wars During the Indian Wars , the American Army carried out a number of massacres and forced relocations of Indigenous peoples that are sometimes considered genocide. [ 115 ]
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. More Lenape or Delaware people live in Canada.
During Pontiac's War, 13 settlers near Fort Loudoun were killed and their homes burned in an attack by Native Americans. 13 (settlers) [127] 1764: July 26: Enoch Brown school massacre: Franklin County Pennsylvania: During Pontiac's War, Four Lenape Indians killed a schoolmaster, 10 pupils and a pregnant woman. Two pupils were scalped but survived.
Students and adults take part in a traditional Lenape dance called a “Bean Dance” during the Delaware Tribe of Indians' recent visit to Paterson's School No. 1.
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 ...
The Penn's Creek massacre was an October 16, 1755, raid by Lenape (Delaware) Native Americans on a settlement along Penn's Creek, [n 1] a tributary of the Susquehanna River in central Pennsylvania. It was the first of a series of deadly raids on Pennsylvania settlements by Native Americans allied with the French in the French and Indian War .
In the 18th century, the upper valley of the Delaware River was a sparsely populated wilderness frontier. In 1756, a party of five men from the Lenape tribe from the valley of the Susquehanna River crossed the Delaware River near Dingman's Bridge into New Jersey and proceeded on foot to the homes of local militia officers Richard Hunt, Anthony ...
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: [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.