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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.
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 ...
Lenapehoking (Unami: Lënapehòkink [1]) is widely translated as 'homelands of the Lenape', which in the 16th and 17th centuries, ranged along the Eastern seaboard from western Connecticut to Delaware, and encompassed the territory adjacent to the Delaware and lower Hudson river valleys, and the territory between them.
The Lenni Lenape once traveled the Minsi Trail from upstate New York into Pennsylvania. Some traces remain. How the 10,000-year-old Minsi Trail became a key Bucks County highway
The lower Hudson River was inhabited by the Lenape Indians. [12] In fact, the Lenape Indians were the people that waited for the explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano onshore, traded with Henry Hudson, and sold the island of Manhattan. [12] Further north, the Wappingers lived from Manhattan Island up to Poughkeepsie. They lived a similar lifestyle to ...
At the time of European contact in the 16th and 17th centuries, the Native American inhabitants of present Westchester County were part of the Algonquian peoples, whose name for themselves was Lenape, meaning the people. They called the region Lenapehoking, which consisted of the area around and between the Delaware and Hudson Rivers.
Lenapehoking Halve Maen in Hudson King James II of England Capture of British Major John André Joshua Hett Smith House, Treason Hill, West Haverstraw, New York Edward Henry Harriman. The area that became Rockland County was originally inhabited by Algonquian-speaking Native Americans, including Munsees, or Lenni Lenape.
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 .