Lenape
Delaware: Lënapeyok | |
|---|---|
Lenape beaded bandolier bag at the Metropolitan Museum of Art | |
| Total population | |
| c. 16,000[1] | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Oklahoma, U.S. | 11,195 (2010)[2] |
| Wisconsin, U.S. | 1,565 |
| Ontario, Canada | 2,300 |
| Languages | |
| English, Munsee, and Unami[1] as a second language | |
| Religion | |
| Christianity, Native American Church, traditional tribal religion | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Other Algonquian peoples | |
| Person | Lënape (Monsi / Wënami) |
|---|---|
| People | Lënapeyok (Monsiyok / Wënamiyok) |
| Language | Lënapei èlixsuwakàn (Monsii èlixsuwakàn / Wënami èlixsuwakàn) |
| Country | Lënapehòkink (Monsihòkink / Wënamihòkink) |
The Lenape (English: /ləˈnɑːpi/, /-peɪ/, /ˈlɛnəpi/;[4][5] Lenape languages: [lənaːpe][6]), also called the Lenni Lenape[7] and Delaware people,[8] are an Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands, who live in the United States and Canada.[1]
The Lenape's historical territory included present-day northeastern Delaware, all of New Jersey, the eastern Pennsylvania regions of the Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania, and New York Bay, western Long Island, and the lower Hudson Valley in New York state.[notes 1] Today communities are based in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario.
During the last decades of the 18th century, European settlers and the effects of the American Revolutionary War displaced most Lenape from their homelands[9] and pushed them north and west. In the 1860s, under the Indian removal policy, the U.S. federal government relocated most Lenape remaining in the Eastern United States to the Indian Territory and surrounding regions.
Federally recognized Lenape tribes are the Delaware Nation and Delaware Tribe of Indians in Oklahoma, the Stockbridge–Munsee Community in Wisconsin.[10] Lenape in Canada are the Munsee-Delaware Nation, Moravian of the Thames First Nation, and the Delaware First Nation of the Six Nations of the Grand River in Ontario.[11]
- ^ a b c Pritzker 422
- ^ "Pocket Pictorial." Archived 2010-04-06 at the Wayback Machine Oklahoma Indian Affairs Commission. 2010: 13. Retrieved 10 June 2010.
- ^ "Art on the Prairies: Delaware", All About the Shoes. Retrieved 19 July 2011.
- ^ "Definition of Lenape". Merriam Webster. Archived from the original on August 13, 2019. Retrieved July 6, 2017.
- ^ "Lenape". Dictionary.com. 2023.
- ^ "Delaware Indians". Lenape Talking Dictionary. Delaware Tribe of Indians. Retrieved February 24, 2023.
- ^ Zeisberger, David (1827). Grammar of the language of the Lenni Lenape or Delaware Indians. Philadelphia: James Kay. ISBN 978-0-404-15803-3.
{{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help) - ^ William, Brandon (1961). Alvin M., Josephy Jr. (ed.). The American Heritage Book of Indians. American Heritage Publishing Co., Inc. pp. 180–211. LCCN 61-14871.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
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- ^ "Southern First Nations Secretariat". Tribal Council Detail. Government of Cananda. Retrieved July 12, 2025.
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