Lenape

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The Lenape are an Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands, traditionally centered in what is now the mid-Atlantic United States, including present-day New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Algonquian-speaking people ⓘ
Indigenous people ⓘ
Native American people ⓘ
alsoKnownAs Delaware people ⓘ
Lenape ⓘ
surface form: Lenni Lenape
colonialExonym Province of Delaware ⓘ
surface form: Delaware
colonialExonymSource Thomas West 3rd Baron De La Warr ⓘ
continent North America ⓘ
culturalPractice council governance ⓘ
oral tradition ⓘ
wampum belt making ⓘ
culturalRegion Eastern Woodlands ⓘ
currentPopulationCenters Kansas ⓘ
New Jersey, United States ⓘ
surface form: New Jersey

Oklahoma ⓘ
Ontario ⓘ
Wisconsin ⓘ
ethnonymLanguage Unami ⓘ
ethnonymMeaning the people ⓘ
federallyRecognizedTribeInUnitedStates Delaware Nation ⓘ
Delaware Nation ⓘ
surface form: Delaware Tribe of Indians

Mahican ⓘ
surface form: Stockbridge-Munsee Community
historicalPeriodOfProminence early colonial period in the mid-Atlantic ⓘ
pre-Columbian era ⓘ
languageFamily Algonquian languages ⓘ
nativeName Lenape self-link ⓘ
notableHistoricalEvent early contact with Dutch colonists in New Netherland ⓘ
forced removals west of the Mississippi River in the 18th and 19th centuries ⓘ
land cessions to English colonists in the 17th and 18th centuries ⓘ
recognizedCommunityInCanada Delaware Nation at Moraviantown ⓘ
Munsee-Delaware Nation ⓘ
Six Nations of the Grand River ⓘ
relatedEthnicGroup Mahican ⓘ
Nanticoke ⓘ
Shawnee ⓘ
other Algonquian peoples ⓘ
religion Christianity ⓘ
traditional Lenape spirituality ⓘ
traditionalDwellings longhouses ⓘ
wigwams ⓘ
traditionalLanguage Munsee language ⓘ
surface form: Munsee

Unami ⓘ
traditionalRegion Northeast Woodlands ⓘ
surface form: Northeastern Woodlands
traditionalSubsistence fishing ⓘ
gathering wild plants ⓘ
hunting ⓘ
maize agriculture ⓘ
traditionalTerritory Delaware Valley ⓘ
surface form: Delaware River valley

Staten Island ⓘ
Hudson Valley ⓘ
surface form: lower Hudson River valley

present-day Delaware ⓘ
present-day New Jersey ⓘ
present-day New York ⓘ
present-day Pennsylvania ⓘ
western Long Island ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Northwest Indian War → opponent → Lenape ⓘ
this entity surface form: Delaware (Lenape)
Mahican → relatedEthnicGroup → Lenape ⓘ
Lenape → nativeName → Lenape self-link ⓘ
Lenape → alsoKnownAs → Lenape ⓘ
this entity surface form: Lenni Lenape
Hoboken → originalInhabitants → Lenape ⓘ
this entity surface form: Lenape people
Ohio Country → claimedBy → Lenape ⓘ
this entity surface form: Delaware (Lenape)
Delaware Colony → hasEthnicGroup → Lenape ⓘ
this entity surface form: Lenape people
Perth Amboy → etymology → Lenape ⓘ
this entity surface form: "Amboy" derived from Lenape word "Ompoge" meaning "level ground"
Tecumseh's War → belligerent → Lenape ⓘ
Delaware County, Ohio → namedAfter → Lenape ⓘ
this entity surface form: Delaware Indians
Northwest Indian Confederacy → hasEthnicGroup → Lenape ⓘ
this entity surface form: Lenape people
Buckongahelas → ethnicGroup → Lenape ⓘ
Buckongahelas → memberOf → Lenape ⓘ
this entity surface form: Lenape people
Kieft's War → belligerent → Lenape ⓘ
Shawnee → relatedEthnicGroup → Lenape ⓘ
Unami language → ethnicGroup → Lenape ⓘ
this entity surface form: Lenape people
Little Turtle's War → belligerent → Lenape ⓘ
this entity surface form: Lenape tribe
Delaware Nation → people → Lenape ⓘ
Delaware Nation → ethnonym → Lenape ⓘ
Delaware Nation → category → Lenape ⓘ
Munsee-Delaware Nation → ethnicGroup → Lenape ⓘ
this entity surface form: Munsee
Munsee-Delaware Nation → hasCulturalHeritage → Lenape ⓘ
this entity surface form: Lenape culture
Munsee-Delaware Nation → hasCulturalHeritage → Lenape ⓘ
this entity surface form: Munsee culture
Munsee-Delaware Nation → hasIndigenousGroup → Lenape ⓘ
this entity surface form: Munsee-Delaware people
Munsee language → ethnicGroup → Lenape ⓘ
this entity surface form: Munsee Lenape people
Munsee language → hasAlternativeName → Lenape ⓘ
this entity surface form: Munsee Lenape
Battle of Fallen Timbers → combatant → Lenape ⓘ
this entity surface form: Delaware (Lenape)
Mahikan → relatedEthnicGroup → Lenape ⓘ
Delaware people → alsoKnownAs → Lenape ⓘ
this entity surface form: Lenni Lenape
Delaware people → nativeName → Lenape ⓘ
Delaware Nation at Moraviantown → partOf → Lenape ⓘ
this entity surface form: Lenape diaspora
Thomas West 3rd Baron De La Warr → ethnicGroupEponymOf → Lenape ⓘ
subject surface form: Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr
this entity surface form: Lenape people (Delaware)
Thomas West 3rd Baron De La Warr → ethnicGroupEponymOf → Lenape ⓘ
subject surface form: Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr
this entity surface form: Delaware Indians
Thomas West 3rd Baron De La Warr → hasExonymDerivedFromName → Lenape ⓘ
subject surface form: Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr
this entity surface form: Delaware Indians
Eastern Woodlands → traditionalInhabitants → Lenape ⓘ
this entity surface form: Lenape (Delaware)