Terrible Lizard

Lenni Lenape

Lënii Lënapeyok

Original People

This site is currently maintained near Coaquannock ("Grove of Tall Pines") in Lenapehoking, the ancestral and traditional homelands of the Lenni-Lenape (or the Delaware people). The nations who have remained within their homelands are the Lenape Nation of Pennsylvania, the Lenape Indian Tribe of Delaware, the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation (NJ), Powhatan Renape Nation (NJ), and Ramapo Munsee Lenape Nation (NJ). The Lenape nations which were forcibly removed from their homelands are the Delaware Nation (OK), the Delaware Nation at Moraviantown (ON, Canada), the Delaware of Six Nations (ON, Canada), the Delaware Tribe of Indians (OK), the Munsee-Delaware Nation (ON, Canada), and the Stockbridge-Munsee Community Band of Mohican Indians (WI)

Resources

American Indian Resources LibGuide (Diablo Valley College)
Indigenous Studies LibGuide (Rowan University)
Lenape Center
Lenape Talking Dictionary
Museum of Indian Culture
Nanticoke and Lenape Confederation Learning Center & Museum

Further Reading

Long Journey Home: Oral Histories of Contemporary Delaware Indians, edited by James W. Brown and Rita T. Kohn (Indiana University Press, 2007)
The Grandfathers Speak: Native American Folk Tales of the Lenapé People, collected and written by Hìtakonanu'laxk (Tree Beard) (Interlink Books, 2023)
The Turtle's Beating Heart: One Family's Story of Lenape Survival by Denise Low (University of Nebraska Press, 2017)
On the Turtle's Back: Stories the Lenape Told Their Grandchildren by Camilla Townsend & Nicky Kay Michael (Rutgers University Press, 2023)

References

Lenape Nation of Pennsylvania. (2018). Retrieved from https://www.lenape-nation.org/
Native Land Digital. (2023). Retrieved from https://native-land.ca/

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