The tribe's common name Delaware is not of Native American origin. The Lenape, when first encountered by Europeans, were a loose association of related peoples who spoke similar languages and shared familial bonds in an area known as Lenapehoking, the Lenape traditional territory, which spanned what is now eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Lower New York, and eastern Delaware. Alternately, lënu may be translated as 'man'. Anishinaabe, in which -naabe, cognate with Lenape, means 'man' or 'male' ). The name Lenni Lenape, also Leni Lenape and Lenni Lenapi, comes from their autonym, Lenni, which may mean 'genuine, pure, real, original', and Lenape, meaning 'real person' or 'original person' ( cf. 6.3 State-recognized and unrecognized groups.

6 Contemporary tribes and organizations.5.4.2 Treaties of the late 18th century.In the 21st century, most Lenape now reside in Oklahoma, with some other communities in Wisconsin and Ontario. In the 1860s, the United States government sent most Lenape remaining in the eastern United States to the Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma and surrounding territory) under the Indian removal policy.

The divisions and troubles of the American Revolutionary War and United States' independence pushed them farther west. The Lenape have a matrilineal clan system and historically were matrilocal.ĭuring the last decades of the 18th century, most Lenape were removed from their homeland by expanding European colonies. Today, Lenape people belong to the Delaware Nation and Delaware Tribe of Indians in Oklahoma the Stockbridge–Munsee Community in Wisconsin and the Munsee-Delaware Nation, Moravian of the Thames First Nation, and Delaware of Six Nations in Ontario. Their historical territory included present-day northeastern Delaware, New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania along the Delaware River watershed, New York City, western Long Island, and the lower Hudson Valley. The Lenape ( English: / l ə ˈ n ɑː p i/, / ˈ l ɛ n ə p i/, or Lenape IPA:, Delaware: Lënapeyok ) also called the Leni Lenape, Lenni Lenape and Delaware people, are an indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands, who live in the United States and Canada. Jennie Bobb and her daughter, Nellie Longhat (both Delaware), Oklahoma, 1915

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