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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 Delaware Tribe of Indians operated autonomously on a tract of land they thought they had outright purchased in the lands of the Cherokee Nation. Following passage of the 1972 Appropriations Act, the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) reviewed the 1958 Bylaws of the Delaware Tribe of Indians. It recommended that the tribe adopt membership ...
The ones who traveled west with the Delaware are part of the federally recognized Delaware Tribe of Indians in Oklahoma. [10] The Nanticoke Indian Association of Millsboro has been a state recognized tribe in Delaware since 1922. [11] The Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Indians are a state recognized tribe in New Jersey.
The name "Wyoming" comes from a Delaware Tribe word Mechaweami-ing or "maughwauwa-ma", meaning large plains or extensive meadows, which was the tribe's name for a valley in northern Pennsylvania. The name Wyoming was first proposed for use in the American West by Senator Ashley of Ohio in 1865 in a bill to create a temporary government for ...
"Delaware's Forgotten Minority - The Moors", Delaware Today, January 1972 issue, 10; Gilbert, Jr., William Harlen. Social Forces, Vol. 2, No. 4. University of North Carolina Press, May 1946; Gilbert, William H. Surviving Indian Groups of the Eastern United States, Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution, provided to the Library of Congress ...
Delaware Nation had 2,255 enrolled citizens in the 2024 fiscal year. [3] As of March 16, 2019, Delaware Nation membership was changed from minimum blood quantum of 1/8 blood to Lineal Descendancy by vote during a Secretarial Election. [4] The Delaware Nation's tribal complex is located two miles (3 km) north of Anadarko, Oklahoma on
Weslager, C.A. "Name-Giving among the Delaware Indians." Names, Journal of the American Name Society (December 1971). Weslager, C.A. Magic Medicines of the Indians. NJ: Middle Atlantic Press, 1973. Weslager, C.A. and Rementer, James A. "American Indian Genealogy And A List of Names Bestowed By A Delaware Indian Name-Giver."
The power of the Gospel: Zeisberger preaching to the Indians by Christian Schussele (1862). The Christian Munsee are a group of Lenape (also known as Delaware), an Indigenous people in the United States, that primarily speak Munsee and have converted to Christianity, following the teachings of Moravian missionaries.