The Lenape or Lenni-Lenape (later named Delaware Indians by Europeans) were, in the 1600s, loosely organized bands of Native American peoples with shared cultural and linguistic characteristics.They practiced small-scale agriculture to augment a largely mobile hunter-gatherer society in the region around the Delaware River, the lower Hudson River, and western Long Island Sound. The Lenape were the people living in New Jersey, the vicinity of New York Harbor, and in the Delaware Valley at the time of the arrival of the Europeans in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and continue to live in this area today. Their Algonquian language is known as either Lenape or "Delaware".
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(n. pl.)
A general name for a group of Algonquin tribes which formerly occupied the coast region of North America from Connecticut to Virginia. They included the Mohicans, Delawares, Shawnees, and several other tribes.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. About
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