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 ...

New Jersey officially recognized the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape as an American Indian Tribe in 1982, but the status of that recognition came into question when federal agencies challenged their status ...

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 ...

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 ...

Chief Dennis “White Otter” Coker — principal chief of the official Lenape Indian Tribe of Delaware ... the 1600s spread across New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, according ...

“And our perspective, from being Native American ... the area as Delaware River National Park and Lenape Preserve. Related: New Jersey sues Ford over pollution on tribal land in Ringwood ...

RINGWOOD, N.J.-- New Jersey is suing the Ford Motor Company over hazardous waste dumping on Native American land ... nearby are members of the Ramapough Lenape Nation. They've lived on the land ...