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Two Delaware Nation citizens, Jennie Bobb and her daughter Nellie Longhat, in Oklahoma, in 1915 [6]. The Lenape (English: / l ə ˈ n ɑː p i /, /-p eɪ /, / ˈ l ɛ n ə p i /; [7] [8] Lenape languages: [lənaːpe] [9]), also called the Lenni Lenape [10] and Delaware people, [11] are an Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands, who live in the United States and Canada.
The Lenape Nation of Pennsylvania operates a cultural center in Easton, Pennsylvania. [13] They host an annual powwow at Mauch Chunk Lake Park in present-day Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania. [14] Once every four years, they host Rising Nation River Journey along the Delaware River. [9] They also created the Lenape Nation Scholarship Fund. [3]
Susquehanna River – from Lenape Siskëwahane, 'mile wide, foot deep' [citation needed] (This Lenape placename does not occur within the bounds of Lenapehoking, as defined by the map accompanying this article.) Tamaqua – from Lenape Tamaqua, 'beaver' [29] Tatamy – from Lenape name Chief Moses Tatamy who lived in the region and died in 1761
A map of the Six Nations land cessions. The Six Nations land cessions were a series of land cessions by the Haudenosaunee and Lenape which ceded large amounts of land, including both recently conquered territories acquired from other indigenous peoples in the Beaver Wars, and ancestral lands to the Thirteen Colonies and the United States.
The village was the focus of missionary efforts, and then was the staging area for raids on English settlements in Pennsylvania during the French and Indian War. It was burned and abandoned by the Lenape in May 1756. A few months later, Fort Augusta was constructed on the site of the village. [9]: 193
[8]: 225–227 However, some Delaware Indians at Shamokin joined the war against Pennsylvania and the English after Braddock's defeat at the Battle of the Monongahela on 9 July 1755. [8]: 229 On 16 October 1755 Lenape Indians allied with the French attacked and destroyed the town of Penns Creek, Pennsylvania about ten miles west of Shamokin.
In 1837, Christian Munsees, also called Delaware-Munsies, settled among fellow Lenape in Kansas. In 1859, the Christian Munsees moved to Franklin County, Kansas, and joined a band of Ojibwe people who had migrated south from Michigan. [1] By 1891, the combined community numbered 85, and the US government formed an Indian reservation for them. [1]
By the time of the French and Indian War, starting in 1754, Kittanning Village was believed by Europeans to be the largest Native American village in the Ohio Country west of the Alleghenies. [citation needed] It was located in an area of Pennsylvania that had been closed to white settlement by the original treaty of William Penn with the Lenape.