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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Unami spokenBy Lenape
this entity surface form: Lenape people
Unami ethnicGroup Lenape
Unami partOfCulturalHeritageOf Lenape
this entity surface form: Lenape Nation
Lower Counties on the Delaware ethnicGroup Lenape
this entity surface form: Lenape people
Raritan Valley historicalInhabitants Lenape
this entity surface form: Raritan people
Ramapo Mountains namedAfter Lenape
this entity surface form: Ramapough Lenape people
Walpole Island ethnicGroup Lenape
Algonquian peoples includesEthnicGroup Lenape
this entity surface form: Munsee
Tamanend ethnicity Lenape
Tamanend country Lenape
this entity surface form: Lenapehoking
Tamanend associatedWith Lenape
this entity surface form: Lenape people
Wappinger people relatedEthnicGroup Lenape
this entity surface form: Munsee
Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States originalInhabitants Lenape
subject surface form: Manhattan
this entity surface form: Lenape people
Nanticoke people relatedEthnicGroup Lenape
this entity surface form: Lenape people
Algic includesLanguage Lenape
Tenakill Creek (variant of Teaneck Creek) or Lenape origin hasCulturalSignificance Lenape
subject surface form: Tenakill Creek
this entity surface form: Lenape people
Tenakill Creek (variant of Teaneck Creek) or Lenape origin languageOfName Lenape
subject surface form: Tenakill Creek
Tenakill Creek (variant of Teaneck Creek) or Lenape origin languageOfName Lenape
subject surface form: Teaneck Creek
Peter Minuit purchaseFrom Lenape
this entity surface form: Lenape people
Pavonia Massacre victim Lenape
Pavonia Massacre victim Lenape
this entity surface form: Lenape Native Americans
Pavonia Massacre combatant Lenape
this entity surface form: Lenape people
Oratam ethnicity Lenape
Oratam country Lenape
this entity surface form: Lenapehoking
Oratam culture Lenape
this entity surface form: Lenape culture
Northern Unami spokenBy Lenape
this entity surface form: Lenape people
Northern Unami ethnicGroup Lenape
Northern Unami usedByCommunity Lenape
this entity surface form: Lenape communities of Pennsylvania (historically)
Northern Unami usedByCommunity Lenape
this entity surface form: Lenape communities of New Jersey (historically)
Northern Unami languageBranch Lenape
this entity surface form: Delaware (Lenape) branch of Eastern Algonquian
Unalachtigo spokenBy Lenape
this entity surface form: Lenape people
Unalachtigo spokenBy Lenape
this entity surface form: Unalachtigo subgroup of Lenape
linguist John O. Rankin languageOfStudy Lenape
subject surface form: John O. Rankin