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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. More Lenape or Delaware people live in Canada.
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.
In 1837, Christian Munsees, also called Delaware-Munsies, settled among fellow Lenape in Kansas. In 1859, the Christian Munsees moved to Franklin County, Kansas, and joined a band of Ojibwe people who had migrated south from Michigan. [1] By 1891, the combined community numbered 85, and the US government formed an Indian reservation for them. [1]
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.
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 ...
The lands were allotted in 160-acre (650,000 m 2) lots in 1907, with any land left over sold to non-Indians. The Nation became federally recognized on July 5, 1958, as the "Delaware Tribe of Western Oklahoma." They ratified their current constitution in 1972. In November 1999, the tribe officially changed its name to the Delaware Nation. [7]
Ancestors to the Nanticoke lived in the area for thousands of years. They lived along the Indian River in southeastern Delaware and the Eastern Shore of Maryland.Called the “Tidewater People,” the Nanticoke, like many of their neighboring tribes, have ancient origins in common with the Lenape, originating from among the Algonquian language-speaking peoples.