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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.
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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]
The Christian Munsee tribe has produced several people who have become notable figures in Christianity and the Delaware Nation as a whole, such as Gelelemend (a Lenape chief), John Henry Kilbuck (a Moravian Christian missionary to the Native peoples in Alaska), Papunhank (a Moravian Lenape diplomat and preacher), Glikhikan (Munsee chief ...
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. More Lenape or Delaware people live in Canada.
New Year's, Thanksgiving and — perhaps least creatively, the 4th of July — all have origins that are fairly easy to figure out. But Black Friday isn't so simple.
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Miller, Richard F. ed. States at War, Volume 4: A Reference Guide for Delaware, Maryland, and New Jersey in the Civil War (2015) excerpt 890pp. Myers, Albert Cook ed., Narratives of Early Pennsylvania, West New Jersey, and Delaware, 1630–1707 (1912) Ward, Christopher Dutch and Swedes on the Delaware, 1609- 1664 (University of Pennsylvania ...