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Lackawaxen Lenape name Lackawaxen, meaning "swift waters," Loyalhanna – after the name of a Lenape town, Layalhanning, meaning 'at the middle of the river': layel or lawel 'middle' + hane 'river' + -ink locative suffix. [90] Loyalsock – Lenape, 'middle creek.' (It is located halfway between lycoming and muncy creeks.) [78]
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.
Machesautauxen Creek, alternate name for the Sleeper Branch (tributary of Mullica River) Mahoras Brook; Manapaqua Branch (stream in Ocean County) Manasquan; Manasquan River (Lenape: Mënàskunk [1]) Manantico Creek; Mannington Creek; Manumuskin River; Manunka Chunk (location on the border of White Township and Knowlton Township) (Lenape ...
Lenni-Lenape literally means 'Men of Men', but is translated to mean 'Original People'. The Lenape names for the areas they inhabited were Scheyichbi (i.e. New Jersey), which means 'water's edge', and Lenapehoking, meaning 'in the land of the Delaware Indians'. It describes the ancient homeland of all Delaware Indians, both Unami and Munsee.
In December 1763, the Paxton Boys, in response to raids by the Lenape and Shawnee during Pontiac's War attacked Conestoga Town in the mistaken belief that the inhabitants were aiding and abetting the attacks. The Paxton Boys slaughtered the six Conestoga they found there, and burned the settlement to the ground.
When Rafinesque wrote an essay on the Lenape language in October 1834, he did not mention the Walam Olum at all. It was two months later that he submitted a supplement about it. This was shortly after he acquired a list of authentic Lenape names compiled by John Heckewelder. [8] Rafinesque's translation of the 183 verses totals fewer than 3,000 ...
The Light in the Forest is about the struggles of a white boy, John Butler, who was taken captive as a boy in Pennsylvania by the Lenni Lenape Indians and became assimilated. The story opens in the autumn of 1764. John Butler, approximately fifteen years of age, has lived with the Lenni Lenape in Ohio since being taken captive eleven years ...
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