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Meaning of "lenape"
Lenape refers to a Native American people originally from the northeastern United States, also known as the Delaware Tribe. It can also pertain to their language or culture
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- A group of aboriginal Americans who were living in what is now New Jersey and along the Delaware River in Pennsylvania, the coast of Delaware, and the lower Hudson Valley and New York Harbor in New York, at the time of the arrival of the Europeans in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
- The languages (Munsee, Unami) spoken by all of this group; Delaware
- The language spoken in the southern range of this group in coastal Delaware, southern New Jersey, and eastern Pennsylvania; Unami.
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Lenape gets ready for a new school.
I guarantee it was a Lenape that ran that kid over.
Lenape place names are used throughout the region.
There is gotta be the Lenape settlement here somewhere.
Lenape men were hunters and sometimes went to war to protect their families.
There is no evidence that the Lenape had anything to.
Lenape is a polysynthetic language with complex verb structure and fairly free word order.
The name is derived from a Lenape language term.
While the Lenape have to fend for them.
He is also an interpreter who speaks Lenape.
The Lenape community is up in arms.
He was the most prominent convert in the Lenape community.
The Lenape are the ones that put it in the mines.
They will not find the Lenape asleep.
Numerous Lenape artifacts have also been found on the property.
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Name a special type of clothing worn by the Lenape.
Pressures upon the Lenape constantly drove them westward.
Burleigh was married to a Lenape woman.
Many Lenape children like to go hunting and fishing with their fathers.
This naming pattern is in line with Lenape kinship ideas.
The owner said two Lenape kids were in there earlier trying to buy water.
He learned to hunt from both local settlers and the Lenape.
The Lenape had a culture in which the clan and family controlled property.
This rock was once a council rock for Lenape Indians living in the area.
He urged the Lenape to follow him further west away from the encroaching colonists.
When they arrived they found prosperous Lenape villages and fields of corn.
But Lenape kids did have dolls and toys such as miniature bows and arrows.
This fact means that the ancestors of the Lenape came from the east.
The settlement was raided by Lenape and Wyandot warriors seeking to expel the interlopers.
From their principal totem they were frequently called the Wolf tribe of the Lenape.
The Towakoni tribe of the Lenape was known for teaching healers or medicine through spirituality.
Iroquoian peoples occasionally fought the Lenape.
The Lenape society was divided into clans that were based upon common female ancestors.
Together they return to the Lenape village in Ohio.
The Lenape would tend their oval gardens during the spring and summer months.
The area was part of the Lenape homeland known as Lenapehoking.
Lenape culture when Europeans arrived.
One legend claims that the Lenape worked the mine even before European settlers arrived.
Relations between the Netherlanders and the Lenape were tenuous.
And the Lenape Indians do not have a navy.
There is much evidence against the authenticity of the Lenape Stone.
The Lenape legacy will live on.
It is likely that the name is based in the Algonquian language Lenape.
The Lenape Indian tribes played an increasingly secondary role.
Speakers of other dialects of Lenape inhabited areas further south into Delaware.
Early European observers may have misinterpreted matrilineal Lenape cultural practices.
We know that there was a Lenape settlement down here by the Collect Pond.
He made treaties with the Continental Congress to try to protect Lenape land.
Legend has it that the Native American Lenape tribes used this as a spiritual area.
The name Delaware later came to be applied to almost all Lenape people.
