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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.
The name Lenape, which is sometimes used in English for both Delaware languages together, is the name Unami speakers also use for their own language in English, [34] [35] whereas Munsee speakers call their language in English Lunaapeew. [36] Uniquely among scholars, Kraft uses Lenape as a cover term to refer to all Delaware-speaking groups. [37]
Cohoquinoque Creek – derived from a Lenni-Lenape word for 'the grove of long pine trees'. Connoquenessing – 'a long way straight' [25] (This Lenape placename does not occur within the bounds of Lenapehoking, as defined by the map accompanying this article.) Conococheague Creek – 'water of many turns' Conodoguinet Creek – 'a long way ...
The English term Lenape is of Unami origin, [30] and is used in English as a self-designation by speakers of Unami; [18] [31] [32] Exceptionally among scholars, Kraft uses Lenape as an English-language cover term to refer to all Delaware-speaking groups, while noting that this usage is "not entirely appropriate". [23] [30]
Hackensack was the exonym given by the Dutch colonists to a band of the Lenape, or Lenni-Lenape ("original men"), a Native American tribe. 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 ...
The Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation (also known as the Nanticoke Lenni Lenape Inc. [1] or the Nanticoke Lenape) is a state-recognized tribe and 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. They represent Nanticoke of the Delmarva Peninsula and the Lenape of southern New Jersey and northern Delaware .
Officially known as the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation of New Jersey, they are recognized by that state. They are based in Bridgeton. [12] After years of intermarriage, numerous members have mixed Nanticoke and Lenape ancestry. Both tribes were historically Algonquian speaking.
Neolin (meaning the enlightened in Algonquian) [1] was a prophet of the Lenni Lenape (also known as Delaware) from the village of Muskingum in Ohio. Neolin was active in the 1760s, but his exact dates of birth and death are unknown.