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The largest American Indian tribe in New Jersey, the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape enjoy friendly relations with the nation of Sweden, which acknowledges its tribal identity and sovereignty. Sweden recently celebrated its more than 350-year-old treaty of friendship with the Tribe, dating to the early settlement of Swedes and Finns in the land of the ...
Nanticoke-Lenni Lenape Tribal Nation in New Jersey [110] Ramapough Lenape Nation in New Jersey [110] More than a dozen organizations in Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, [111] Virginia, and elsewhere claim descent from Lenape people and are unrecognized tribes.
The Kechemeche were a tribe in the Lenape group, later named the Delaware by some historians. The Lenape nation consisted of three major divisions, or clans [citation needed]: the Took-seat, which meant Wolf, or Round Paw, also known as the Munsee, and which settled in North New Jersey and Southern New York.
According to Native American tradition, the Lenni Lenape (“Men among Men”) tribe traveled the trail from Delaware River headwaters in upstate New York to the saltwater estuary for more than ...
History of the Indian tribes of Hudson's River: their origin, manners and customs, tribal and sub-tribal organizations, wars, treaties, etc., etc. J. Munsell, (1872) Hutchinson, Viola L. (May 1945). The Origin of New Jersey Place Names (PDF). New Jersey Public Library Commission.
In August 2023, the Native American Advancement Corporation, affiliated with the state-recognized tribe, acquired 63 acres in Salem County, New Jersey, which had been ancestral territory of the Cohanzick Lenape. Officially known as the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation of New Jersey, they are recognized by that
The Ramapough are one of three state-recognized tribes in the state (along with the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape and the Powhatan Renape). Picaro, though, refers to the group of people in this region ...
Prehistory, history and humanity. In a state that's proud of its place in history, from the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape tribe to George Washington crossing the Delaware River, from Harriet Tubman ...