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  Lenape Language and the Delaware Indian Tribe (Lenapé, Unami, Unalachtigo, Lenni Lenape Indians)
Language: Lenapé or Unami Delaware is an Algonquian language originally spoken in New Jersey, Delaware and Pennsylvania.
There are no fully fluent speakers of Lenape Delaware anymore, but the younger generation of Lenapes has undergone a resurgence of interest in reviving the Delaware language.
Most Lenape Indians were eventually forced to relocate to Oklahoma in the 1860's, where they entered an uneasy union with the Cherokee Nation and regained independent tribal status only in 1996.
www.native-languages.org /lenape.htm   (600 words)

  
  Lenape   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
The Lenape or Lenni-Lenape (later named Delaware Indians by Europeans) were, in the 1600s, loosely organized bands of Native American people practicing small-scale agriculture to augment a largely mobile hunter-gatherer society in the region around the Delaware River, the lower Hudson River, and western Long Island Sound.
The early interaction between the Lenape and the Dutch was primarily through the fur trade, specifically the exchange of beaver pelts by the Lenape for European-made goods.
The Lenape were continually crowded out by European settlers and pressured to move in several stages over a period of about 175 years with the main body arriving in Northeast Oklahoma in the 1860s.
hallencyclopedia.com /Lenape   (1680 words)

  
 Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Leni Lenape mythology
The Lenape (also known as Lenni-Lenape, Leni-Lenape, Delaware Indians and Munsee) are a tribe of Native Americans.
A headdress including an eagle tail bonnet, eagle feather coupstick and leggings of deerskin was a symbol of Allowat Sakima.
Kishelemukong[?] is the creator god, not involved in the daily affairs of the Leni Lenape.
www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/le/Leni_Lenape_mythology   (195 words)

  
 lenape indians
The Lenapes lived in small groups along the shores and rivers in wigwams and long houses.
Primarily farmers, the Lenape supplemented their major crops of corn, squash, and beans with fish, wild game, berries, nuts, herbs, and roots.
During this celebration, a mask painted 1/2 red and 1/2 fl along with a fur skin was worn by a Lenape Indian to invoke the Mesingw's spirit.
www.angelfire.com /nj/becjosh/lenape2.htm   (451 words)

  
 Koinonia
Americans, including the Lenape, understood their connection to the land and how important it was to take care of all life.
Lenape Village was built as a place to learn about the culture of our first inhabitants and to learn some of their history so that we can better understand some of the problems and struggles faced by modern Native Americans today.
Lenapes were gardeners and in the 1970Ís, a garden was started in the village.
www.koinoniany.org /lenape.htm   (2169 words)

  
 Lenape mythology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Lenape (also known as Lenni-Lenape, Leni-Lenape, Delaware Indians and Munsee) are a tribe of Native Americans.
A headdress including an eagle tail bonnet, eagle feather coupstick and leggings of deerskin was a symbol of Allowat Sakima.
Kishelemukong is the creator god, not involved in the daily affairs of the Leni Lenape.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lenape_mythology   (196 words)

  
 Facts for Kids: Lenni Lenape Indian Tribe (Delaware Indians, Lenapes)
Other Lenape descendants live with their near kinfolk the Munsee or Nanticoke, in small Lenne Lenape communities in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, or hidden in the general population at one of the many points along their forced travels.
Some older Lenapes still know a little of their native Lenape language, and there is interest among the younger people in reviving its use.
Leni Lenape mothers, like many Native Americans, traditionally carried their infants in cradleboards on their backs--a custom which many American parents have adopted now.
www.geocities.com /bigorrin/lenape_kids.htm   (1362 words)

  
 Lenape - TheBestLinks.com - Leni Lenape, Beaver, Maize, Netherlands, ...
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The Lenape supplied the revoluntary army with warriors and scouts in exchange for food supplies and the promise of a role at the head of a future native american state.
www.thebestlinks.com /Leni_Lenape.html   (1127 words)

  
 Delaware (Lenape) Tribe of Indians: Homepage
In our language, which belongs to the Algonquian language family, we call ourselves LENAPE (len-NAH-pay) which means something like "The People." Our ancestors were among the first Indians to come in contact with the Europeans (Dutch, English, and Swedish) in the early 1600s.
The land belonged to the Creator, and the Lenape people were only using it to shelter and feed their people.
We are sorry that we cannot be of help to many of you who might have Lenape blood, but there are no sources of which we are aware to look for your ancestors' names.
www.delawaretribeofindians.nsn.us   (723 words)

  
 Atlantic County Government - History
The name by which the Lenape are best known, however, was given to them by the English settlers in the middle seventeenth century.
There were three Indian groups: the dominant Lenapes, the Mohegans of Long Island and the Nanticokes of the Delaware and Chesapeake Peninsula.
The Lenape were a deeply religious people and their belief in a Creator and eleven lessor Gods reached all aspects of their lives.
www.aclink.org /HISTORY/mainpages/LENAPE.asp   (561 words)

  
 Manetuwak
Within Leni Lenape spirit tradition essentially all objects were generally believed to possess a "life spirit" or regarded to "be alive", that is animated by a life spirit.
Guidance was sought through the manetuwak by both Lenape men and women by various ritualized prayers, visions, and dreams.
Meteinuwak, a kind of shaman directed these rituals and dances and were the spiritual advisors and closely connected with these spirits, thought to be involved with every day life.
www.pantheon.org /articles/m/manetuwak.html   (121 words)

  
 Albino Spirit animals
Within the Northeastern Woodlands, Leni Lenape, Susquehannock, Iroquois (Six Nations) etc. One primary principle: The Albino was not to be hunted or killed.
[Leni Lenape words for: white, Wapsu; owl, Gokhos.] If an albino squirrel were hunted and killed, the hunter would suffer loss of his hunting abilities.
If an albino deer were killed (and without remorse) the hunter might later loose his life in a freak accident often involving his hunting or survival skills.
www.pantheon.org /articles/a/albino_spirit_animals.html   (389 words)

  
 Evolution
The tribes living in Delaware were the Leni Lenape, which was a division of the much larger Algonquin nation.
After Captain Argall named the Bay after Lord de la Warr in the 1600s, the Lenape people living on the shores of the "de la Warr Bay" came to be known as the Delaware Indians.
In Delaware, the wealth from the fur trade with the Europeans caused the Lenni Lenape to eradicate the bear and beaver population from their territory as early as 1644.
www.horseshoecrab.org /evo/ceno/1500ad.html   (709 words)

  
 Native Americans: Delaware/Lenape History and Culture
As a complement to our Lenape language information, we would like to share our collection of indexed links about the Lenape people and various aspects of their society.
Lenape history is interesting and important, but the Lenape are still here today, too, and we try to feature modern authors as well as traditional folklore, contemporary artwork as well as museum pieces, and the issues and struggles of today as well as the tragedies of yesterday.
Ethnography of the Lenape Indians of eastern Pennsylvania.
www.native-languages.org /lenape_culture.htm   (528 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Delaware Indians
By reason of being the parent body of a number of cognate tribes, and holding the ancestral territory, they were accorded precedence in intertribal assemblies, under the respectful title of "grandfather".
The Lenapé proper consisted of three tribes-Munsee, Unami, and Unalaqtgo-symbolized respectively under the totems of the Wolf, Turtle, and Turkey.
The most ancient traditions of the Lenapé are contained in the sacred pictograph record known as the Walam Olum or "Red Score", first brought to notice by Rafinesque in 1836 and published with translation and notes by Brinton in 1885.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/04695a.htm   (677 words)

  
 Urban Dictionary: lenape
Short for Lenni Lenape or Leni Lenape also referred to as The Delaware Indians for the River Valley they lived around.
Leni Lenape means Real Men or true people in the alqonquin language.
Large groups of Lenape descendents are located in parts of Canada, and Oklahoma, namely Anadarko and Bartlesville.
www.urbandictionary.com /define.php?term=lenape&defid=1932207   (344 words)

  
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When settling in the area, William Penn didn’t plan on fighting the Lenape; instead, he decided to make a treaty with them to secure their friendship and obtain their land.
Penn signed the treaty at the village of Shackamaxon, but some believe his successors burned the document so they could do as they pleased in their dealings with the Leni-Lenape.
The heirs to his colony weren’t as lenient with the Indians as Penn was; eventually this ended their friendship with the neighboring Leni-Lenape (Virginia.edu).
www.ettc.net /njarts/details.cfm?ID=1003   (597 words)

  
 The Story of the Algonquian Indians
For many Algonquian (as in other groups), the Lenni Lenape were the "grandfathers," a term of great respect stemming from the widespread belief that the Lenape were the original tribe of all Algonquian-speaking peoples; and this often gave the Lenape the authority to settle disputes between rival tribes.
A common tradition shared by most Algonquian maintains that the Lenape, Nanticoke and Powhatan were, at some point in the past, a single tribe which lived in the Lenape homeland.
Notes David McCutchen: "The traditions of the Lenni Lenape, as recorded by Heckewelder in a later time when they were known as the Delaware Indians, state that their ancestors came out of a LAND OF ICE AND SNOW in the FAR NORTHWEST of the continent.
www.hope-of-israel.org /algonqun.htm   (7579 words)

  
 Who Were the Talligewi
The Delaware (Leni Lenape) is the Indian tribe the Order of the Arrow uses in its legends and ceremonies.
"Walum Olum" or "Red Score" is the migration legend of the Leni Lenape or Delaware Indians, translated by Constantine Rafinesque (1783-1840), a professor at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, and published by the Indiana Historical Society.
It covers time as far back as when the tribes crossed the land bridge from Asia to North America and continues its account to a date not too distant from when Rafinesque was born.
www.talligewi62.org /whowere.htm   (1044 words)

  
 History- Borough of North Arlington, New Jersey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
The Lenape are believed to have descended from one group of the Paleo-Indians who came across Siberia to the Seward Peninsula in Alaska about 30,000 years ago.
The early Lenape were a loose confederation of independent communities living mainly in the Delaware River Valley.
North Arlington during the seventeenth and early eighteenth century was nothing more than a route Dutch travellers took to get from one place to the other.
www.northarlington.org /history.html   (1151 words)

  
 Search Results for Leni-Lenape - Encyclopædia Britannica
When the first Europeans arrived, the Delaware (or Lenni Lenape) Indians lived in northern and central Delaware and also along the river shore in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
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Before the Europeans came, the Delaware (or Lenni Lenape) Indians had long occupied the region.
www.britannica.com /search?query=Leni-Lenape&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT   (370 words)

  
 Words to Know : Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Leni Lenape: name for the group of Algonquin-speaking Indians that once lived in the lower Delaware Valley.
Wampum:  from the Algonquin wampumpeag, polished shell beads often strung into belts in designs representing events of significance. Leni Lenape and other Algonquin groups used wampum as symbolic gift and currency in trade with European colonists.
Shawnee:  Native American Algonquin group originally residing in the Ohio Valley region of Pennsylvania and Ohio.
www.hsp.org /default.aspx?id=332   (416 words)

  
 Indianz.Com Message Board - Leni-Lenape   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
my grandmother is in the process of trying to prove that her grandmother's mother was a Lenape, after her and her brothers and sisters were made to hide that part of their heritage for years as children and were not allowed to mentinon it around their grandmother...
one group in maryland /delaware area claims nanticoke and lenape and claim their language is of them but is really a pidgin language they got out of a book that claimed it was the original language of the lenape.
And here we have the second great pretender spouting more truths about the Lenape and Indian people when all he ever had was a few anthropologists' books and an adoption by nons pretending to be Lenape.
www.indianz.com /indianz.com_non_ssl/board/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=13457&   (3896 words)

  
 Lenape on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Pennsylvania Gov. Schweiker Announces $500,000 for Lenape Valley Foundation.
Bob Red Hawk Ruth, 50, the chief of the Lenape Nation of Pennsylvania stands in front of his home with a ceremonial headdress.
It is customery for tribes from the north to use deer antlers for headdre
www.encyclopedia.com /html/X/X-L1enape.asp   (309 words)

  
 gilwell.com: The Lenape / English Dictionary
Click on Full Dictionary to use your browser's search function to find English words that may relate to the Lenape word you are looking for.
If you know the Lenape word, but are seeking the English equivalent, you can link to quickly to a page starting with the same letter.
This page was put together to assist members of the Order of the Arrow with their interest in the language of the Lenape.
www.gilwell.com /lenape   (129 words)

  
 Maplewood Matters
But his remains were never found, and the jury is still out on the details of his life.
Mel White went to Camp Lenape when she was a somewhat reluctant Girl Scout.
She was approximately four minutes from her home, on Collinwood Road, but grew so homesick that she had to be retrieved midweek.
www.maplewoodonline.com /matters/chief   (1641 words)

  
 Introduction
Also, Penn only became a Quaker in his twenties, shortly after posing for his only painted portrait--the one with the lad in a full suit of armor.
Yet peace is what he was loved and memorialized for, especially for his treaty with the Leni Lenape (Delaware).
It was at this time that he supposedly signed his famous treaty with the Delaware (Leni Lenape) at Shackamaxon.
xroads.virginia.edu /~CAP/PENN/pnintro.html   (1406 words)

  
 delaware lenape indian tribe social studies
In our language, which belongs to the Algonquian language family, we call ourselves LENAPE (len-NAH-pay) which means something like "The People." Here you will find history, social anthropology, current events, questions and answers.
The Flag of the Lenni Lenape or Eastern Delaware
They speak a form of the Algonquian Indian language and are thus related to the Miami, Ottawa, and Shawnee Indians.
www.archaeolink.com /delaware_indians.htm   (1089 words)

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