Native American Tribes in New Jersey - Lenape People, Lenape Mythology, Mahican, Delaware Languages, Ramapough Mountain Indians, Unami Language (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 71. Chapters: Lenape people, Lenape mythology, Mahican, Delaware languages, Ramapough Mountain Indians, Unami language, Walam Olum, Stomp dance, Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape, Hackensack tribe, Nora Thompson Dean/Touching Leaves Woman, Gnadenhutten massacre, Captain Pipe, Teedyuscung, Lenapehoking, Kittanning Expedition, Tamanend, Bemino, Walking Purchase, White Eyes, Nanticoke people, Buckongahelas, Christian Munsee, Oratam, Kechemeche, Delaware Tribe of Indians, Shingas, John Wannuaucon Quinney, Kittanning Path, Venango Path, Choptank people, Hell Town, Ohio, Tappan tribe, Delaware Nation, Treaty of Easton, Great Minquas Path, Ruthe Blalock Jones, John and Edith Kilbuck, Raritan tribe, Treaty of Fort Pitt, Custaloga, Neolin, Acquackanonk tribe, Vera Cruz, Pennsylvania, Siwanoy, Burial Ridge, Frances Slocum, Navesink tribe, Pompton people, Daniel David Moses, Rumachenanck tribe, Jack D. Forbes, Moses Tunda Tatamy, Pontiac's Rebellion school massacre, Shackamaxon, Netawatwees, Unalachtigo Lenape, Chief Wampage, Captain Jacobs, Murdering Town, Esopus tribe, Kiondashawa, Roberta Lawson, Shamokin, Charles Journeycake, Scattamek, Mahackemo, Lappawinsoe, List of Chiefs of the Wolf Clan. Excerpt: The Lenape ( or ) are a group of several organized bands of Native American people with shared cultural and linguistic characteristics. Their name for themselves (autonym), sometimes spelled Lennape or Lenapi, means "the people." They are also known as the Lenni Lenape (the "true people") or as the Delaware Indians. English settlers named the Delaware River after Lord De La Warr, the governor of the colony at Jamestown, Virginia. They used the exonym above for almost all the Lenape people living along this river and its tributaries. At the time of European contact in the 16th and 17th centuries, the Lenape lived in the area referred to as Lenapehokin...