Lenape - Brodhead's Coshocton Expedition, Burial Ridge, Choptank People, Christian Munsee, Delaware Languages, Delaware Nation, (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 36. Chapters: Brodhead's Coshocton expedition, Burial Ridge, Choptank people, Christian Munsee, Delaware languages, Delaware Nation, Delaware Tribal Business Committee v. Weeks, Delaware Tribe of Indians, Esopus tribe, Gnadenhutten massacre, Great Minquas Path, Hackensack tribe, Hell Town, Ohio, Kechemeche, Lenapehoking, Lenape mythology, Lenape settlements, Munsee people, Murdering Town, Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape, Stockbridge-Munsee Community, Tappan tribe, Walking Purchase. Excerpt: The Lenape () are Native American people in Canada and the United States. They are also called Delaware Indians after their historic territory along the Delaware River. As a result of disruption following the American Revolutionary War and later Indian removals from the eastern United States, the main groups now live in Ontario (Canada), Wisconsin, and Oklahoma. In Canada, they are enrolled in the Munsee-Delaware Nation 1, the Moravian of the Thames First Nation, and the Delaware of Six Nations. In the United States, they are enrolled in three federally recognized tribes, that is, the Delaware Nation and the Delaware Tribe of Indians, both located in Oklahoma, and the Stockbridge-Munsee Community, located in Wisconsin. The Ramapough Mountain Indians and the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape identify as Lenape descendants and are recognized as tribes by the state of New Jersey. At the time of European contact in the 16th and 17th centuries, the Lenape inhabited a region on the mid-Atlantic coast in what anthropologists call the Northeastern Woodlands. Although never politically unified, It roughly comprised the area around and between the Delaware and lower Hudson rivers, and included the western part of Long Island in present-day New York. Some of their place names, such as Manhattan, Raritan, and Tappan were adopted by Dutch and English colonists to identify...