Lenape
noun
Lenapes
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pluralof Lenape.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
The Dutch were intelligent enough to make instant use of these friendly sentiments on the part of the natives and hastened to make a treaty with the Iroquois, the Mohegans, and the Lenni Lenapes.
From Dutch and English on the Hudson A Chronicle of Colonial New York by Maud Wilder Goodwin
The Lenapes, who received William Penn, a hundred and fifty years ago, upon the banks of the Delaware, have disappeared; and I myself met with the last of the Iroquois, who were begging alms.
From Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Henry Reeves
Never more were they or their descendants seen upon the lands where the Lenapes found them.
From Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 by James Athearn Jones
