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The Lenni Lenape Indians travelled to America almost 40,000 years ago on an isthmus connecting Asia and Alaska called Beringia. Beringia is now covered in water and is called the Bering Strait.

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The Lenape, or Delaware Indians, lived in an area they called "Lenapehoking", which meant "Land of the Lenape." Their land included all of what is now New Jersey, eastern Pennsylvania, southeastern New York State, Northern Delaware and a small part of southeastern Connecticut. When settlers arrived from Europe in the early 1600s, some Lenape were living in large villages of two or three hundred people, but most of them lived in small bands of 25 to 30 people.

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Ancestors of the Lenape come to New Jersey because they were getting mistreated by the Masters and they're the slaves

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Why did the lenape settle in the Delaware river valley?

why did the lenape settle in the new jersey area


What Indians lived in NJ?

the Lenape ,the Archaic, and the Paleo -Indians


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A Sakima.


What Indians lived in New Jersey?

The Lenni-lenape lived there in NJ (called the Delaware by the European).


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The first people to settle the New York City area were the Native American Lenape tribe.


Where do today lenni lenape live?

Due to ethnic cleansing & forced removal the Lenape today are spread across the United States and Canada, with concentrations along their trail of tears from their Ehenta Wehikiankw or "Old Homeland" all the way to Oklahoma. Many jumped off the trail of tears to settle along the way. Some were also rescued by the Moravians of Bethlehem, Pa and taken to Ontario Canada where there is today a "Delaware" reservation at Moraviantown. But there are actually 5 dialects of the original Lenape, two having been documented toward Oregon! The others migrated to NY, PA, DE & NJ and then, of course, out to OK.


First native American Indian reservation?

The Brotherton reservation for New Jersey's Lenni Lenape (Algonquin) Indians input by Seneca0utlaw - That reservation is located in Medford, NJ


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The Lenape spoke Lenape Languagealso known as Unami.


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