Delaware Indian Tribe

  Native American Nations |                   

Delaware. A confederacy, formerly the most important of the Algonquian stock, occupying the entire basin of Delaware river in east Pennsylvania and south New York, together with most of New Jersey and Delaware. They called themselves Lenape or Leni-lenápe, equivalent to 'real men,' or 'native, genuine men'; the English knew them as Delawares, from the name of their principal river; the French called them Loups, 'wolves,' a term probably applied originally to the Mahican on Hudson rivers, afterward extended to the Munsee division and to the whole group. To the more remote Algonquian tribes they, together with all their cognate tribes along the coast far up into New England, were known as Wapanaehki, 'easterners,' or 'eastern land people,' a term which appears also as a specific tribal designation in the form of Abnaki. By virtue of admitted priority of political rank and of occupying the central home territory, from which most of the cognate tribes had diverged, they were accorded by all the Algonquian tribes the respectful title of "grandfather," a recognition accorded by courtesy also by the Huron. The Nanticoke, Conoy, Shawnee, and Mahican claimed close connection with the Delawares and preserved the tradition of a common origin. Read more...
 

Native American Land Patents
A listing by state and tribe for Land Patents issued by the government to Native Americans

Delaware Indians of Kansas

Lands of the Delaware Indians

Handbook of American Indian
Delaware History
Delaware Villages
Delaware Chiefs
Delaware Clans
Conoy Indians
Nanticoke Indians
Unalachtigo Indians

Post a Delaware Query

Indian Tribes of North America, Swanton
Delaware

Native American Nations