Lenape
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of Lenape
1720–30, < Unami Delaware ləná·p·e (equivalent to Proto-Algonquian *elen- ordinary + *-a·pe·w man)
Example Sentences
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As a Quaker, Penn sought peaceful interactions with the Lenape people, said Jean Soderlund, a retired professor of history at Lehigh University.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 11, 2024
Lehigh University’s Bethlehem campus is home to the Delaware Nation of Oklahoma’s extension Tribal Historic Preservation Office, which is part of their Lenape homelands.
From Washington Times • Oct. 13, 2023
The aqueous picture, whose smudgy core mingles brown and deep green, memorializes the Lenape natives who once settled the harbor area, and also invokes the recent birth of the painter’s child.
From Washington Post • Sep. 1, 2022
The Lenape, she told me, called it the River That Runs Both Ways, for the estuary’s complex crosscurrents of salt and fresh water.
From New York Times • Aug. 25, 2022
When we told Ms. Laverne we’d fight with the Lenape, she said, But then maybe you wouldn’t be here now?
From "Harbor Me" by Jacqueline Woodson
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