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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 1648, the Axion band of Lenape were the largest tribe on the Delaware River, with 200 warriors. [62] Epidemics of newly introduced European infectious diseases, such as smallpox, measles, cholera, influenza, and dysentery, [63] reduced the populations of Lenape. They and other Native peoples had no natural immunity. Recurrent violent ...
The Delaware River is a major river in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States and is the longest free-flowing (undammed) river in the Eastern United States. From the meeting of its branches in Hancock, New York , the river flows for 282 miles (454 km) [ 1 ] along the borders of New York , Pennsylvania , New Jersey , and Delaware , before ...
The site's archeology has been studied for more than 100 years, since the discovery in 1900 of Native American burials, and Indian and European artifacts. Since the late twentieth century, researchers have concentrated on trying to understand Native American cultures rather than simply retrieve artifacts and antiquities. [3] "Today, Minisink ...
Nanticoke River Delaware Indians. The Nanticoke people are a Native American Algonquian people, whose traditional homelands are in Chesapeake Bay and Delaware.Today they live in the Northeastern United States and Canada, especially Delaware; in Ontario; and in Oklahoma.
Lenapehoking (Unami: Lënapehòkink [1]) is widely translated as 'homelands of the Lenape', which in the 16th and 17th centuries, ranged along the Eastern seaboard from western Connecticut to Delaware, and encompassed the territory adjacent to the Delaware and lower Hudson river valleys, and the territory between them.
Fog surrounds cliffs looming over the Delaware River whose valley is the core of the historic Minisink region, July 2007. The Minisink or (more recently) Minisink Valley is a loosely defined geographic region of the Upper Delaware River valley in northwestern New Jersey (Sussex and Warren counties), northeastern Pennsylvania (Pike and Monroe counties) and New York (Orange and Sullivan counties).
The Nanticoke ancestors of the modern Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape tribe lived along the Indian River in southeastern Delaware and the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Called the “Tidewater People,” the Nanticoke, like many of their neighboring tribes, have ancient origins in common with the Lenape, originating from among the Algonquian-language ...