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  • The Leni-lenape and the Hurons united their forces.

    The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races Emory Adams Allen

  • English colonies, where, as has been told, a great branch of that people who called themselves the Lenni-lenape, and whom we called the

    Stories Of Ohio William Dean Howells 1878

  • In the same tongue, a youth is called pilape, a word compounded from the first part of pilsit, innocent, and the latter part of lenape, a man.

    Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Robert Chambers 1836

  • This word is formed from _pilsit_, chaste, innocent; and _lenape_, man; viz., man in his purity and innocence.

    American Institutions and Their Influence Alexis de Tocqueville 1832

  • The Lenni-lenape, spoken by a great family more widely spread than the other two and from which, together with a vast number of other tribes, are sprung our Crees.

    The Journey to the Polar Sea John Franklin 1816

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    Kerry Trueman: If You Can't Stand The Heat, Get Into The Garden 2009

  • (they called themselves the Leni-lenape) were living in a cold, fir-tree country -- evidently the wooded regions north of Lake Superior.

    The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races Emory Adams Allen

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    Kerry Trueman: If You Can't Stand The Heat, Get Into The Garden 2009

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