Eastern Delaware

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Eastern Delaware refers to the group of Lenape (Delaware) people who traditionally lived in the eastern portion of their ancestral homelands and are distinguished from related western bands.

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Eastern Delaware canonical 1

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Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Indigenous people
Lenape subgroup
alsoKnownAs Eastern Delaware Indians
Eastern Lenape
linked to: Lenape
ancestralHomelandRegion Mid-Atlantic region of present-day United States
colonialContactWith Dutch colonists
English colonists
Swedish colonists
culturallyRelatedTo Mahican
Munsee Delaware
Unami Delaware
distinguishedFrom Delaware of the Ohio Country
linked to: Delaware (Lenape)

Western Delaware
ethnicGroupOf Lenape
geographicQualifier eastern portion of Lenape homelands
hasCulturalTrait clan-based social organization
council-based political decision-making
longhouse and wigwam dwellings
wampum use
hasEthnonym Delaware
Lenape
historicalEvent displacement from ancestral homelands
land cessions to European colonies
laterReligion Christianity
linguisticFamily Algonquian languages
partOf Delaware people
peopleOf Northeastern Woodlands
linked to: Eastern Woodlands
region Eastern North America
relatedGroup Delaware Nation
Delaware Tribe of Indians
linked to: Delaware Nation

Stockbridge-Munsee Community
religion traditional Lenape spiritual practices
subgroupOf Lenape
timePeriod colonial era
post-contact era
pre-contact era
traditionalLanguage Munsee
linked to: Munsee language

Unami
traditionalSubsistence fishing
gathering wild plants
hunting
maize agriculture
traditionalTerritory Atlantic coastal areas of present-day New Jersey
Delaware River valley
linked to: Delaware Valley

eastern Pennsylvania
lower Hudson River valley
western New Jersey

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Western Delaware relatedGroup Eastern Delaware