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- noun A group of native American people who were living in what is now New Jersey and along the Delaware River in Pennsylvania, the coast of Delaware, and the lower Hudson Valley and New York Harbor in New York, at the time of the arrival of the Europeans in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
- proper noun The languages spoken by all of this group;
Delaware - proper noun The language spoken in the southern range of this group in coastal Delaware, southern New Jersey, and eastern Pennsylvania; Unami.
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Examples
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Wiaki = partner of Szebel, massive yanjanger (name means abundance in Lenape) (Y)
Archive 2004-12-12 Maggie Jochild 2004
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Wiaki = partner of Szebel, massive yanjanger (name means abundance in Lenape) (Y)
SKENE CAST OF CHARACTERS Maggie Jochild 2004
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Kpahi = youngest child of Moasi and Ktiva (name means shut the door in Lenape)
SKENE CAST OF CHARACTERS Maggie Jochild 2004
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Kpahi = youngest child of Moasi and Ktiva (name means shut the door in Lenape)
Archive 2004-12-12 Maggie Jochild 2004
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The Lenape were the first Indian tribe to enter into a treaty with the future United States government.
History of American Women Maggiemac 2008
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-- from these specious Cherokees, who yet called the Lenape "grandfather."
The Frontiersmen Mary Noailles Murfree 1886
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Heckewelder considers the Crees of Moose Factory to be a branch of that tribe of the Lenape which is named Minsi, or Wolf Tribe.
The Journey to the Polar Sea John Franklin 1816
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We are engaged in conversation with the indigenous Lenape Indians, helping lift their culture through the creation of a community center in Manhattan.
Joseph Ward III: An Ad Controversy With Sojourners And Jim Wallis, Highlights Intersections International Joseph Ward III 2011
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We are engaged in conversation with the indigenous Lenape Indians, helping lift their culture through the creation of a community center in Manhattan.
Joseph Ward III: An Ad Controversy With Sojourners And Jim Wallis, Highlights Intersections International Joseph Ward III 2011
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Maybe it was the Lenape people who lived here on an island called Manhattan before the Europeans came and called it New York, he said.
Mark Rylance on tattoos, critics and being crowned king of Broadway 2011
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