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Lenape Indian Tribe of Delaware in Delaware [110] Nanticoke-Lenni Lenape Tribal Nation in New Jersey [110] Ramapough Lenape Nation in New Jersey [110] More than a dozen organizations in Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, [111] Virginia, and elsewhere claim descent from Lenape people and are unrecognized tribes.
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."
Lenape nations today control lands within Oklahoma (Delaware Nation and Delaware Tribe of Indians), Wisconsin (Stockbridge-Munsee Community), and Ontario (Munsee-Delaware Nation, Moravian of the Thames First Nation, and Delaware of Six Nations).
According to Native American tradition, the Lenni Lenape (“Men among Men”) tribe traveled the trail from Delaware River headwaters in upstate New York to the saltwater estuary for more than ...
Lenape settlements are villages and other sites founded by Lenape people, a Native American tribe from the Northeastern Woodlands. Many of these sites are located in Ohio and Pennsylvania . Hell Town
The Ramapough Nation's deep history. Known as the Ramapough Lenape Munsi Nation, the Ramapoughs are culturally an Algonquin Nation organized into three clans, Turtle, Deer and Wolf, Stead said ...
In 1995, New Jersey established a Commission on American Indian Affairs (then termed the Commission on Native American Affairs) with two seats each for the recognized tribes of the Ramapough Mountain Indians, the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape, and the Powhatan Renape (the latter two groups are located in southern New Jersey.) In addition, two seats ...