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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.
One of the many ways Native American influence shines through the United States is in our place names. ... The name is believed to be of Lenni-Lenape origin for “great deer river” or “dark
Name comes from a play about a Native American from the Wampanoag people of New England. [26] Mingo Junction - Mingo is common nickname for the Ohio Seneca people. Variant of Mingwe, what the Lenape once called the related Susquehannock Indians of Pennsylvania. Mississinawa - Miami. Name of a river tributary to the Wabash.
The Council of Lenape Elders works to sustain traditional dances, culture, and the tribal language, and works with the Delaware Gourd Society. The tribe maintains a Delaware Center, on an 80-acre (320,000 m 2) parcel of land in Bartlesville. [5] Delaware artists are known for their wood carving and ribbon work skills.
"The Lenape people’s words are all over New Jersey as names of towns, cities and streets whose origins have been lost to the general public, and this outreach is a great step in redressing that ...
Aboriginal place names of New York. New York State Education Department, New York State Museum. Bright, William (2004). Native American Place Names of the United States. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. Campbell, Lyle (1997). American Indian Languages: The Historical Linguistics of Native America. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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]