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The name Lenni Lenape originates from two autonyms, Lenni, which means "genuine, pure, real, ... The Lenape-Delaware Indian Heritage, 10,000 BC to AD 2000.
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]
Macanippuck Run (tributary of Delaware River in Cumberland County) (Lenape: Mèkënipèk [1]) 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
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 colonial Dutch referred to the Lenape Indian peoples whom they encountered in this mid-Atlantic region, along the lower Hudson and northern New Jersey areas, as the Hackensack, Tappan, Nyack, and Minsi; these names were from the Lenape words for the bands, who took the names associated with geographic places. [24]
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.
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
Lenape mythology is the mythology of the Lenape people, ... Religion and Ceremonies of the Lenape. Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, 1921.