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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linguist John O. Rankin associatedWithEthnicGroupLanguage Lenape
subject surface form: John O. Rankin
this entity surface form: Lenape people
Lënapei Lënu refersTo Lenape
this entity surface form: Lenape people
Lënapei Lënu usedBy Lenape
this entity surface form: Lenape people
Southern Delaware language traditionalSpeakers Lenape
this entity surface form: Lenape people
Southern Delaware language alsoKnownAs Lenape
this entity surface form: Southern Lenape
Southern Unami ethnicGroup Lenape
this entity surface form: Lenape people
Southern Unami ethnicGroup Lenape
this entity surface form: Delaware Indians
Southern Unami associatedPeople Lenape
this entity surface form: Lenape of the Delaware River region
Treaty of Fort Pitt (1778) negotiatedWith Lenape
this entity surface form: Lenape chiefs
Penn Treaty Park area associatedWith Lenape
this entity surface form: Lenape people
Western Delaware relatedGroup Lenape
this entity surface form: Lenape of the Delaware River valley
Western Delaware ethnicContinuityWith Lenape
this entity surface form: Lenape people
eastern Pennsylvania historicallyInhabitedBy Lenape
subject surface form: Eastern Pennsylvania
eastern Pennsylvania historicallyInhabitedBy Lenape
subject surface form: Eastern Pennsylvania
this entity surface form: Munsee
Stockbridge-Munsee Community hasPeople Lenape
this entity surface form: Munsee people
Penn's Treaty with the Indians depicts Lenape
this entity surface form: Lenape people
Chief Katonah ethnicity Lenape
Chief Katonah memberOf Lenape
this entity surface form: Lenape people
Chief Katonah culture Lenape
Chief Katonah people Lenape
Chief Katonah associatedWithEthnicGroup Lenape
this entity surface form: Delaware Indians
Chief Katonah associatedWithTribe Lenape
this entity surface form: Lenape tribe
Raritan, New Jersey namedAfter Lenape
this entity surface form: Raritan people
turtle clan partOf Lenape
subject surface form: Turtle clan (Lenape)
this entity surface form: Lenape people
turtle clan ethnicGroup Lenape
subject surface form: Turtle clan (Lenape)
turtle clan associatedWith Lenape
subject surface form: Turtle clan (Lenape)
this entity surface form: Lenape clan system
turtle clan relatedTo Lenape
subject surface form: Turtle clan (Lenape)
this entity surface form: Turkey clan (Lenape)
turkey clan ethnicGroupOf Lenape
this entity surface form: Lenape people
turkey clan culture Lenape
turkey clan peopleAssociated Lenape
this entity surface form: Delaware Indians
Treaty of Shackamaxon hasParticipant Lenape
this entity surface form: Lenape people
Treaty of Shackamaxon significantEventFor Lenape
this entity surface form: Lenape people
Moraviantown hasCulturalHeritage Lenape
this entity surface form: Lenape culture
Unami Delaware spokenBy Lenape
this entity surface form: Lenape (Delaware) people
unm ethnicGroup Lenape
subject surface form: Unami language
this entity surface form: Lenape people
unm spokenBy Lenape
subject surface form: Unami language
this entity surface form: Lenape people
Susquehanna Valley historicallyInhabitedBy Lenape
this entity surface form: Lenape people