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  • A confederation of Miami, Shawnee, Delaware (Lenape), and Wyandot Indians achieved major victories over U.S. forces in 1790 and 1791, under the ...
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  • Long Island Sound and Narragansett Bay. The Lenape name for Long Island is "Sewanacky," reflecting its connection to the "black" ...
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  • [[Image:Lapowinsa01.jpg|thumb|175px|Lapowinsa, Chief of the Lenape ... Algonquian tribes known as the Unami Lenape or Delaware throughout the ...
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  • The word Allegheny comes from the Lenape (Delaware) Indians. Although it is usually translated as "fine river," the meaning is not ...
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  • by Native Americans, primarily the Lenni-Lenape. The Lenape were loosely ... land ownership was not recognized by the Lenape, Dutch policy required formal ...
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  • home to the Delaware (also known as Lenni Lenape), Susquehannock, Iroquois ... the King's grant. Tamanend, a Lenni-Lenape chief, played a prominent ...
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  • The Philadelphia area was the location of the Lenape (Delaware) Indian ... land, Penn bought the land from the local Lenape to be on good terms with ...
    34 KB (4,831 words) - 03:00, 24 November 2022
  • from Tamanend, a Native American chief of the Lenape. He was best known as a lover of peace and played a prominent role in establishing peaceful relations ...
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  • * Mercer, H.C. 1885. [http://fax.libs.uga.edu/E98xP4xM5/ The Lenape Stone or The Indian and the Mammoth.] University of Georgia Libraries. Retrieved ...
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  • of the Three Fires, Ojibwe, Odawa, Potawatomi, Lenape, Miami, Kickapoo, Kaskaskia, Chickamauga-Cherokee, and members of the Wabash Confederacy. The ...
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  • The area that is now Manhattan was long inhabited by the Lenape tribe. In 1524, Lenape, in canoes, met Giovanni da Verrazzano, the first European ...
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  • Thayendanegea or Joseph Brant (1742 – November 24, 1807) was a Mohawk leader and British military officer during the American Revolution. Brant ...
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  • the local Indians (primarily of the Leni Lenape (the Delaware) tribe), and ensured that they were paid fairly for their lands. Penn even learned ...
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  • New York was inhabited by Algonquian, Iroquois, and Lenape Native ... The area was long inhabited by the Lenape. Lenape in canoes met Giovanni ...
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  • a "permanent home" for the Lenni-Lenape tribe. While the government initially sought to secure Native lands through treaty-purchase ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group {{Infobox Ethnic group |group = Tuscarora |image = ...
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  • the New York City area was inhabited by the Lenape people, including such tribes as the Manahattoes, Canarsies, and Raritan; Lenape in canoes met ...
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  • Tecumseh (c. 1768 - October 5, 1813) was a brilliant chief, warrior, orator, and leader of the Shawnee Nation, who advocated inter-tribal alliance ...
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  • Red Jacket (c. 1750 - January 20, 1830), known as Otetiani in his youth and Sagoyewatha after 1780, was a Native American of the Seneca tribe ...
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  • * Leni Lenape mythology : manetuwak * Norse mythology : seid * Druidry : Awen * Yoruba mythology : oloddumare Also related are the philosophical ...
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