Descendants of New Jersey’s original inhabitants ... Johnson said. “The Lenape were the first Native Americans to sign a treaty,” Johnson said. That treaty, adopted by the Continental ...

Leather Industry: The Lenape Indians were the earliest leather manufacturers in New Jersey. The Lenape: The name of the native people of New Jersey means “real” or “original people.” ...

calling them the Delaware Indians, because they had trouble pronouncing Lenape (Leh-NAH-pay). Before the "Delawares" were forced off the land, they inhabited the region that is now New Jersey, as ...

In 2003, Vernon Township residents, and the Nanticoke Lenni Lenape Indians of New Jersey led an effort to preserve this site. And the New Jersey Historic Preservation Office and the National Park ...

The Land Conservancy of New Jersey, along with the Ramapough ... as though following a “Rand McNally map of the Native Americans.” The Lenape viewed each of these sites as a portal between ...

the Lenape Tribe of Indians in Dover. But in part because Pennsylvania’s settlers and state institutions dispersed Indigenous people more effectively than in New Jersey and Delaware, its Lenape ...

A map at the Penn Museum in Philadelphia shows the forced migration of members of the Lenape Nation. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY) We wrote this story based on responses from readers and listeners like you.

The Lenape: The Native American tribe often referred to as the Delawares, are most often referenced as the Indian people who once lived in eastern Pennsylvania, southern New York and New Jersey ...