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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: [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 Kechemeche, like other members of the Lenni Lenape, believed that land was to be used, not owned, which created a philosophical conflict, as well as misunderstandings, between the Kechemeche and the settlers. In addition, the Kechemeche generally required approximately one square mile for hunting and for providing meat for a family unit.
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]
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 ...
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]
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King Nummy (also Nummie and Thomas Nummie) was a chief of the Kechemeche, a subdivision of the Lenni Lenape that lived in modern Southern New Jersey, and at the time part of the English Province of New Jersey. He was the last relevant leader of the group; by the time of Nummy's death, the Kechemeche had largely either migrated westward ...