Delaware (Lenape)

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The Delaware (Lenape) are an Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands of North America, historically centered in present-day New Jersey, eastern Pennsylvania, southeastern New York, and northern Delaware, known for their complex clan system, early contact with European colonists, and subsequent forced migrations westward.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Algonquian-speaking people
Indigenous people
Native American tribe
affectedBy European diseases
land dispossession
alsoKnownAs Delaware Indians
linked to: Lenape

Leni Lenape
linked to: Lenape

Lenni Lenape
linked to: Lenape
clanSystem matrilineal clans
turkey clan
turtle clan
wolf clan
culturalRegion Northeastern Woodlands
linked to: Northeast Woodlands
currentCommunities New Jersey
Oklahoma
Ontario
Pennsylvania
Wisconsin
earlyContactWith Dutch colonists
English colonists
Swedish colonists
economy wampum production
ethnonymDerivedFrom Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr
firstEuropeanContactCentury 17th century
historicalRegion eastern Pennsylvania
northern Delaware
present-day New Jersey
southeastern New York
housing longhouses
wigwams
involvedIn fur trade
kinshipSystem matrilineal descent
languageFamily Algonquian languages
materialCulture bark containers
canoe building
woven mats
migratedWestTo Indiana
Kansas
Missouri
Ohio Country
Oklahoma
nameGivenBy English colonists
nativeName Lenape
oralTraditions creation stories
migration narratives
partOfLargerGrouping Eastern Algonquian peoples
linked to: Algonquian peoples
religion Christianity
traditional spiritual practices
selfDesignation Lenape
selfDesignationMeaning the people
subjectTo forced migration
subsistence fishing
gathering wild plants
hunting
maize agriculture
traditionalLanguage Munsee
linked to: Munsee language

Unami
traditionalPoliticalOrganization sachems
village-based leadership
treatyHistory Treaty of Easton
Walking Purchase

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Pontiac's War hasParticipant Delaware (Lenape)
French and Indian War belligerent Delaware (Lenape) allies of France
linked to: Delaware (Lenape)
Treaty of Fort Wayne (1809) signatory Delaware tribe
linked to: Delaware (Lenape)
Oratam nativeTo Lenapehoking (traditional Lenape territory)
linked to: Delaware (Lenape)
Fort Duquesne associatedWithTribe Delaware (Lenape)
Western Confederacy hasMember Delaware (Lenape)
Battle of the Maumee Rapids combatantTribe Delaware (Lenape)
Battle of Kekionga combatant Delaware (Lenape)
Woodland Indians includedPeople Delaware (Lenape)
Lenape Indian Tribe of Delaware traditionalTerritory Lenapehoking
linked to: Delaware (Lenape)
siege of Fort Pitt opposingForce Delaware (Lenape)
Tappan partOf Lenapehoking
linked to: Delaware (Lenape)
Bushy Run Battlefield associatedTribe Delaware (Lenape)
Treaty of Grouseland signatory Delaware tribe
subject linked to: Treaty of Grouseland (1805)
linked to: Delaware (Lenape)
Delaware languages subgroup associatedWith Lenapehoking
linked to: Delaware (Lenape)
Eastern Delaware distinguishedFrom Delaware of the Ohio Country
linked to: Delaware (Lenape)