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Lenni Lenape

American  
[len-ee] / ˈlɛn i /

noun

  1. Delaware.


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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

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

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

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

When each individual had taken his proper station, and silence reigned in the place, the gray-haired chief already introduced to the reader, spoke aloud, in the language of the Lenni Lenape.

From The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

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