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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: [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 Perkiomen Valley was first inhabited by the Lenni-Lenape Tribe and was declared part of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on March 4, 1681, by King Charles II. In 1720, the first copper mine in Pennsylvania was located near Schwenksville. Perkiomen Valley provided the colonists and the Native Americans a rich place to grow crops and ...
The Lenape Nation of Pennsylvania is an unrecognized tribe. [4] Despite having the word nation in its name, the organization is neither a federally recognized tribe [7] nor a state-recognized tribe. [8] [9] Pennsylvania has no federally recognized or state-recognized tribes. [9]
The Museum of Indian Culture is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization [1] and educational center in Allentown, Pennsylvania.. Founded in 1980, the center is dedicated to presenting, preserving, and perpetuating the history of the Lenape and other Northeastern Woodland Indian cultures. [2]
The Delaware Tribe of Indians, or the Eastern Delaware, based in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, is one of three federally recognized tribes of the Lenape people in the United States. The others are the Delaware Nation based in Anadarko, Oklahoma , [ 1 ] and the Stockbridge-Munsee Community of Wisconsin .
The Lenape ancestors of the modern tribe are those who inhabited present-day New Jersey, Delaware, southeastern New York, and eastern Pennsylvania at the time of European encounter. They called themselves Lenni-Lenape, which means "Original People" or "Common People."
Joseph Brant, a Mohawk, depicted in a portrait by Charles Bird King, circa 1835 Three Lenape people, depicted in a painting by George Catlin in the 1860s. Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands include Native American tribes and First Nation bands residing in or originating from a cultural area encompassing the northeastern and Midwest United States and southeastern Canada. [1]
The Lenape Indian Tribe of Delaware Inc. is a state-recognized tribe and non-profit organization in the US state of Delaware.