Lenape

After all, Lenape territory remains unceded, no matter how many times it is acknowledged.

From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026

Suddenly in 1745 among the Lenape, Brainerd led an awakening.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

Next to the letter, posted to the wall, is a statement signed by three chiefs of contemporary communities of the Lenape, whose ancestors inhabited Manhattan when the Dutch arrived.

From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 2024

As a Quaker, Penn sought peaceful interactions with the Lenape people, said Jean Soderlund, a retired professor of history at Lehigh University.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 11, 2024

But after we learned about the Lenape, the Lenape people, I couldn’t do that hand thing anymore.

From "Harbor Me" by Jacqueline Woodson

Leaders of both the Nanticokes and Lenapes said they had tried for years to buy the parcels, but they either couldn’t make the deal come together or they didn’t have enough money.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 28, 2021

The indigenous, matriarchal Lenapes got short shrift; Quakers and Jews were not accepted originally, until the West India Company overruled Gov. Peter Stuyvesant.

From New York Times ● Jan. 4, 2018

The expounders of dreams gave it as their opinion, that the Great Spirit had bidden the familiar genius of the warrior to reveal to him the work to which he had ordained the Lenapes.

From Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 by James Athearn Jones

With the potent war-medicine of the Lenapes, borne by a priest, the confederates attacked their enemies, and were victors.

From Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 by James Athearn Jones

So one band, the strongest of the Lenapes, remained beyond the Mississippi, while the others prepared to encounter the nations who were the present lords of the soil.

From Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 by James Athearn Jones