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At first European contact in the early 17th century, the tribe lived along the Delaware River, named for Lord de la Warr, [4] territory in lower present-day New York state and eastern New Jersey, and western Long Island, New York. The Delaware nation was the first to sign a treaty with the new United States.
In 1982, the tribe believed it received official recognition from the State of New Jersey via Senate Concurrent Resolution Number 73. [citation needed] This was reaffirmed through the tribe's statutory inclusion in the New Jersey State Commission on American Indian Affairs (New Jersey Public Law 1995 c. 295; New Jersey Statutes 52:16A-53 et. seq.).
The Lenape or Delaware Indians: The Original People of New Jersey, Southeastern New York State, Eastern Pennsylvania, northern Delaware and parts of western Connecticut. Lenape Books, 1996. ISBN 978-0-935137-01-9. O'Meara, John, Delaware-English / English-Delaware dictionary, Toronto: University of Toronto Press (1996) ISBN 0-8020-0670-1.
As early as the 1760s, Delaware Indians living in the Ohio Valley urged their relations in New Jersey to move west to join the main body. In 1775, New Jersey Delaware Indian leader Isaac Stille, personally led approximately sixty New Jersey Indians to the Ohio Valley. [15]
Descendants of those who later traveled west with the Delaware are part of the federally recognized Delaware Tribe of Indians in Oklahoma. [10] The Nanticoke Indian Association of Millsboro has been a state-recognized tribe in Delaware since 1922. [11] The Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Indians are a state-recognized tribe in New Jersey. Neither is ...
Ramapough Mountain Indians (5 P) Pages in category "Native American tribes in New Jersey" ... Delaware people; H. Hackensack people; K. Kechemeche; L.
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.
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.