Lenape
Americannoun
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Lenapes,
plural
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Lenape
plural
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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)
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After all, Lenape territory remains unceded, no matter how many times it is acknowledged.
From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026
Suddenly in 1745 among the Lenape, Brainerd led an awakening.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
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
Acknowledgments that New York was once home to the Lenape people have become a familiar refrain at arts venues.
From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2023
“Long, long time ago, before cars and buses, and streetlights and houses, the Lenape lived in New York. They owned the whole place. Can you believe that, Leda?”
From "Towers Falling" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Leaders of both the Nanticokes and Lenapes said they had tried for years to buy the parcels, but they either couldn’t make the deal come together or they didn’t have enough money.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 28, 2021
The indigenous, matriarchal Lenapes got short shrift; Quakers and Jews were not accepted originally, until the West India Company overruled Gov. Peter Stuyvesant.
From New York Times ● Jan. 4, 2018
Soon he returned, and told our people that there was a band of Indians encamped in the path of the Lenapes, at a little distance from us.
From Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 by James Athearn Jones
Spies were sent to search out the land, while the Lenapes travelled after at their leisure.
From Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 by James Athearn Jones
They were a division or clan of the Delawares or Leni Lenapes.
From The Quaker Colonies, a chronicle of the proprietors of the Delaware by Sydney George Fisher
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