Delaware Nation at Moraviantown

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Delaware Nation at Moraviantown is a Lenape First Nation community in Ontario, Canada, with a distinct cultural and historical heritage rooted in the Lenape people.


Statements (49)
Predicate Object
instanceOf First Nation
Lenape community
associatedWithEvent Battle of the Thames
associatedWithPerson Tecumseh
borderedBy non-Indigenous municipalities of Chatham-Kent
country Canada
ethnicGroup Lenape
governedBy elected band council
hasAlternativeName Delaware Nation at Moraviantown
surface form: "Moraviantown Delaware Nation"
hasCommunityType rural community
hasCulturalHeritage Lenape ceremonies
Lenape oral history
Lenape traditions
hasCulturalInstitution band administration office
community cultural centre
hasCulturalPractice powwows
traditional Lenape crafts
traditional Lenape dances
hasDemographic Indigenous population
hasGovernmentType First Nations band government
hasHistoricalExperience relocation from the United States to Canada
hasHistoricalOrigin Lenape displacement from homelands in the eastern United States
hasHistoricalReligion Christianity
traditional Lenape spirituality
hasReserveStatus Indian reserve
hasRight treaty rights under Canadian law
hasSettlement Moraviantown
isPartOf First Nations
surface form: "First Nations in Ontario"

Lenape nations in North America
languageCurrentlySpoken English
languageTraditionallySpoken Munsee language
surface form: "Lenape language"
locatedIn Chatham-Kent
surface form: "Chatham-Kent, Ontario"

Ontario
Southwestern Ontario
locatedNear Bothwell, Ontario
locatedOn Thames River
maintains Lenape cultural programs
Lenape language revitalization efforts
officialName Delaware Nation at Moraviantown
partOf Lenape
surface form: "Lenape diaspora"
people Lenape
recognizedBy Canadian federal government (Ottawa)
surface form: "Government of Canada"

Government of Ontario
religiousHistory Moravian Church in America
surface form: "Moravian Christian missions"
shortName Delaware Nation
subjectOf studies of Lenape history in Canada
traditionalTerritoryOrigin Lenape homelands in present-day New Jersey
Lenape homelands in present-day New York
Lenape homelands in present-day Pennsylvania

Referenced by (6)

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

Delaware people canadaRecognizedFirstNation Delaware Nation at Moraviantown
Delaware Nation at Moraviantown hasAlternativeName Delaware Nation at Moraviantown
this entity surface form: "Moraviantown Delaware Nation"
Munsee-Delaware Nation isAssociatedWith Delaware Nation at Moraviantown
Delaware Nation at Moraviantown officialName Delaware Nation at Moraviantown
Lenape recognizedCommunityInCanada Delaware Nation at Moraviantown
Munsee language usedBy Delaware Nation at Moraviantown

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