Lenni Lenape
Americannoun
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As they journeyed through the region, their travels brought them face to face with the people who had lived there for millennia – the Lenni Lenape, the father tribe of the Lenape and Nanticoke Indians.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 23, 2022
Radnor’s fellow Central League school, Ridley, adopted the Raider name in the mid-1930s to honor the Lenni Lenape tribe.
From New York Times ● Jun. 30, 2021
In the township’s elementary schools, we learned about the Lenni Lenape tribe and put on Thanksgiving plays.
From New York Times ● Jun. 30, 2021
Historians believed Quaker and Salem founder John Fenwick signed a treaty with the Lenni Lenape Indians under the oak tree in 1675.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 22, 2019
This is the word which we find in the name Lenni Lenape, which, by its derivation, means “we, we men.”
From American Languages, and Why We Should Study Them by Daniel Garrison Brinton
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