Delaware (Lenape)

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The Delaware (Lenape) are an Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands of North America, historically centered in present-day New Jersey, eastern Pennsylvania, southeastern New York, and northern Delaware, known for their complex clan system, early contact with European colonists, and subsequent forced migrations westward.

All labels observed (6)

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (61)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Algonquian-speaking people ⓘ
Indigenous people ⓘ
Native American tribe ⓘ
affectedBy European diseases ⓘ
land dispossession ⓘ
alsoKnownAs Delaware Indians ⓘ
linked to: Lenape

Leni Lenape ⓘ
linked to: Lenape

Lenni Lenape ⓘ
linked to: Lenape
clanSystem matrilineal clans ⓘ
turkey clan ⓘ
turtle clan ⓘ
wolf clan ⓘ
culturalRegion Northeastern Woodlands ⓘ
linked to: Northeast Woodlands
currentCommunities New Jersey ⓘ
Oklahoma ⓘ
Ontario ⓘ
Pennsylvania ⓘ
Wisconsin ⓘ
earlyContactWith Dutch colonists ⓘ
English colonists ⓘ
Swedish colonists ⓘ
economy wampum production ⓘ
ethnonymDerivedFrom Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr ⓘ
firstEuropeanContactCentury 17th century ⓘ
historicalRegion eastern Pennsylvania ⓘ
northern Delaware ⓘ
present-day New Jersey ⓘ
southeastern New York ⓘ
housing longhouses ⓘ
wigwams ⓘ
involvedIn fur trade ⓘ
kinshipSystem matrilineal descent ⓘ
languageFamily Algonquian languages ⓘ
materialCulture bark containers ⓘ
canoe building ⓘ
woven mats ⓘ
migratedWestTo Indiana ⓘ
Kansas ⓘ
Missouri ⓘ
Ohio Country ⓘ
Oklahoma ⓘ
nameGivenBy English colonists ⓘ
nativeName Lenape ⓘ
oralTraditions creation stories ⓘ
migration narratives ⓘ
partOfLargerGrouping Eastern Algonquian peoples ⓘ
linked to: Algonquian peoples
religion Christianity ⓘ
traditional spiritual practices ⓘ
selfDesignation Lenape ⓘ
selfDesignationMeaning the people ⓘ
subjectTo forced migration ⓘ
subsistence fishing ⓘ
gathering wild plants ⓘ
hunting ⓘ
maize agriculture ⓘ
traditionalLanguage Munsee ⓘ
linked to: Munsee language

Unami ⓘ
traditionalPoliticalOrganization sachems ⓘ
village-based leadership ⓘ
treatyHistory Treaty of Easton ⓘ
Walking Purchase ⓘ

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Referenced by (16)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Pontiac's War → hasParticipant → Delaware (Lenape) ⓘ
French and Indian War → belligerent → Delaware (Lenape) allies of France ⓘ
linked to: Delaware (Lenape)
Treaty of Fort Wayne (1809) → signatory → Delaware tribe ⓘ
linked to: Delaware (Lenape)
Oratam → nativeTo → Lenapehoking (traditional Lenape territory) ⓘ
linked to: Delaware (Lenape)
Fort Duquesne → associatedWithTribe → Delaware (Lenape) ⓘ
Western Confederacy → hasMember → Delaware (Lenape) ⓘ
Battle of the Maumee Rapids → combatantTribe → Delaware (Lenape) ⓘ
Battle of Kekionga → combatant → Delaware (Lenape) ⓘ
Woodland Indians → includedPeople → Delaware (Lenape) ⓘ
Lenape Indian Tribe of Delaware → traditionalTerritory → Lenapehoking ⓘ
linked to: Delaware (Lenape)
siege of Fort Pitt → opposingForce → Delaware (Lenape) ⓘ
Tappan → partOf → Lenapehoking ⓘ
linked to: Delaware (Lenape)
Bushy Run Battlefield → associatedTribe → Delaware (Lenape) ⓘ
Treaty of Grouseland → signatory → Delaware tribe ⓘ
subject linked to: Treaty of Grouseland (1805)
linked to: Delaware (Lenape)
Delaware languages subgroup → associatedWith → Lenapehoking ⓘ
linked to: Delaware (Lenape)
Eastern Delaware → distinguishedFrom → Delaware of the Ohio Country ⓘ
linked to: Delaware (Lenape)