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The Lenape of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Delaware, Wisconsin, Oklahoma, and Ontario (The Library of Native Americans). Powerkids Publishing, 2005. ISBN 978-1-4042-2872-6. De Valinger, Leon Jr. and C.A. Weslager. Indian Land Sales In Delaware: And A Discussion Of The Family Hunting Territory Question In Delaware. Literary Licensing LLC ...
The name Raritan likely came from one of the Lenape languages (among the languages in the Algonquian language group), though there are a variety of interpretations as to its meaning. It may derive from Naraticong [2] meaning "river beyond the island." Raritan is a Dutch pronunciation of wawitan or rarachons, meaning "forked river" or "stream ...
Susquehanna River – from Lenape Siskëwahane, 'mile wide, foot deep' [citation needed] (This Lenape placename does not occur within the bounds of Lenapehoking, as defined by the map accompanying this article.) Tamaqua – from Lenape Tamaqua, 'beaver' [29] Tatamy – from Lenape name Chief Moses Tatamy who lived in the region and died in 1761
After many centuries of living on North America’s Eastern Seaboard, the Lenape were sent to Oklahoma in the 19th century as part of the American government’s forced migration of Native Americans.
Kittanning (top right) and other Native American villages and points of interest, most circa 1750s. Kittanning (Lenape Kithanink; pronounced [kitˈhaːniŋ]) was an 18th-century Native American village in the Ohio Country, located on the Allegheny River at present-day Kittanning, Pennsylvania.
The Unami dialect (called a language by non-native speaker students of Lenape) is sometimes called Delaware or Delaware proper, reflecting the original application of the term Delaware to Unami speakers. [27] Both Munsee and Unami speakers use Delaware if enrolled and Lenape if not enrolled as a self-designation in English. [28]
Minsi Trail is prehistoric. According to Native American tradition, the Lenni Lenape (“Men among Men”) tribe traveled the trail from Delaware River headwaters in upstate New York to the ...
Native American Place Names of the United States. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. Campbell, Lyle (1997). American Indian Languages: The Historical Linguistics of Native America. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Ruttenber, Edward Manning.