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Shannoc Brook (tributary of Toms River in Ocean County) Shipetaukin Creek (feeder stream of the D&R Canal in Mercer County) Mount Tammany; Tantomwom, the native name for Long Hill. Tulpehocken Creek; Upper Pohatcong Mountain; Waackaack Creek alt. Waycake Creek (tributary of Raritan Bay in Monmouth County –its name is given to the Waackaack ...
In 1995, New Jersey established a Commission on American Indian Affairs (then termed the Commission on Native American Affairs) with two seats each for the recognized tribes of the Ramapough Mountain Indians, the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape, and the Powhatan Renape (the latter two groups are located in southern New Jersey.) In addition, two seats ...
Buffalo Jump NYC serves Indigenous food at the Queens Night Market every week, but also does special events in New Jersey and New York. The hope is to open a brick-and-mortar store next year.
Cherokee Nation of New Jersey [25] [117] Eagle Medicine Band of Cherokee Indians, also in Pennsylvania [117] New Jersey Sand Hill Band of Indians (also known as Sand Hill Band of Lenape and Cherokee Indians or Sand Hill Band of Indians). [26] [46] Letter of Intent to Petition 01/09/2007. [27] Osprey Band of Free Cherokees [25] [30] [31] [32] [46]
One of the historical tribal congregations, Saint John United Methodist Church of Fordville, New Jersey, is the only Native American Church in New Jersey so designated by the United Methodist Church. By the 20th century, most of the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribe’s population resided in and around Cumberland and Salem counties in New Jersey ...
Indian Mills, formerly known as Brotherton, is an unincorporated community located within Shamong Township in Burlington County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. [2] It was the site of Brotherton Indian Reservation, the only Indian reservation in New Jersey and the first in America, founded for the Lenni Lenape tribe, some of whom were native to New Jersey's Washington Valley.
The name is a Dutch derivation of the Lenape word for what is now the region of northeastern New Jersey along the Hudson and Hackensack rivers. While the Lenape people occupied much of the mid-Atlantic area, Europeans referred to small groups of native people by the names associated with the places where they lived.