Lenapehoking is a term for the lands historically inhabited by the Native American

Native Americans in the United States

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 people known as the Lenape

Lenape

The Lenape are an Algonquian group of Native Americans of the Northeastern Woodlands. They are also called Delaware Indians. As a result of the American Revolutionary War and later Indian removals from the eastern United States, today the main groups live in Canada, where they are enrolled in the...

 (named Delaware by early European settlers) in what is now the Northeastern United States

Northeastern United States

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. Though it is sometimes said to be a word in the Delaware languages for this area, like much of the toponymy

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 involving languages in the Algonquian

Algonquian languages

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 linguistic group, there is some confusion about the meaning and history of the name. Much of this land is now heavily urbanized and suburb

Suburb

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anized.

At the time of the arrival of the Europeans in the 16th and 17th century, the Lenape homeland generally encompassed the territory adjacent to the Delaware

Delaware River

The Delaware River is a major river on the Atlantic coast of the United States.A Dutch expedition led by Henry Hudson in 1609 first mapped the river. The river was christened the South River in the New Netherland colony that followed, in contrast to the North River, as the Hudson River was then...

 and lower Hudson

Hudson River

The Hudson is a river that flows from north to south through eastern New York. The highest official source is at Lake Tear of the Clouds, on the slopes of Mount Marcy in the Adirondack Mountains. The river itself officially begins in Henderson Lake in Newcomb, New York...

 river valleys, as well the territory between them. It stretched from modern-day Delaware

Delaware

Delaware is a U.S. state located on the Atlantic Coast in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It is bordered to the south and west by Maryland, and to the north by Pennsylvania...

 to western Connecticut

Connecticut

Connecticut is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, and the state of New York to the west and the south .Connecticut is named for the Connecticut River, the major U.S. river that approximately...

 and Long Island

Long Island

Long Island is an island located in the southeast part of the U.S. state of New York, just east of Manhattan. Stretching northeast into the Atlantic Ocean, Long Island contains four counties, two of which are boroughs of New York City , and two of which are mainly suburban...

 and included parts of eastern Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

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 all of present day New Jersey

New Jersey

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, and the southern counties of New York State

New York

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, including Nassau County

Nassau County, New York

Nassau County is a suburban county on Long Island, east of New York City in the U.S. state of New York, within the New York Metropolitan Area. As of the 2010 census, the population was 1,339,532...

, and the five boroughs of New York City

New York City

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. Along with New York City, Newark

Newark, New Jersey

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, Trenton

Trenton, New Jersey

Trenton is the capital of the U.S. state of New Jersey and the county seat of Mercer County. As of the 2010 United States Census, Trenton had a population of 84,913...

, Princeton

Princeton, New Jersey

Princeton is a community located in Mercer County, New Jersey, United States. It is best known as the location of Princeton University, which has been sited in the community since 1756...

, Philadelphia, Wilmington, Delaware

Wilmington, Delaware

Wilmington is the largest city in the state of Delaware, United States, and is located at the confluence of the Christina River and Brandywine Creek, near where the Christina flows into the Delaware River. It is the county seat of New Castle County and one of the major cities in the Delaware Valley...

, Atlantic City, and numerous other urban and suburban areas are in Lenapehoking today, as are the Jersey Shore

Jersey Shore

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, Pine Barrens

Pine barrens

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, the Sourland Mountains, the Delaware Valley

Delaware Valley

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, and perhaps some parts of the Catskills, Poconos, and the Pennsylvania Dutch Country

Pennsylvania Dutch Country

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.

There is no universal agreement among scholars regarding the autonym of Lenape territory. Some believe the area the Lenape inhabited was called Scheyischbi, or 'the place bordering the ocean'. According to some people, the Lenape called this territory "Lenapehoking" (lənape haki-nk), meaning 'in the land of the Lenape'. This assertion has gained widespread acceptance and is found widely in recent literature on the Lenape, including in the websites of purported Lenape people. Ray Whritenour, a philologist, says that the term does not appear in any sources from the 18th century, but is a modern name coined by Nora Thompson Dean (Touching Leaves Woman) in 1984, in order to provide the archaeologist/author, Herbert C. Kraft

Herbert C. Kraft

Herbert Clemens Kraft was an archaeologist from New Jersey, specializing in prehistory. Kraft was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey in 1927...

, with a convenient term for the area once inhabited by ancestors of the Lenape people.

Today, some Native Americans not limited to the Lenape or Delaware tribes live in the Northeast Corridor

Northeast Corridor

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 or Eastern Seaboard

Eastern seaboard

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. Many of them arrived in the 1920's to 1960s from the Iroquois Confederacy employed as skyscraper construction workers, where they been nicknamed the "Mohawks" and they played an important rule in building the skyline of Philadelphia and New York City

New York City

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. In the University City, Philadelphia section of West Philadelphia

West Philadelphia

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, there has been some political activity by Urban Indian

Urban Indian

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 residents of the area whom adapted the namesake Lenapehoking to where they live, but only a small number are American Indians and some protests and near-riots by them occurred there in the late 2000's and 2010.

Other Lenape place names

Lenape place names within the region included:

• Manhattan
  Manhattan
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  • Manhattan is derived from Manna-hata, a Dutch version of a Lenape place-name.

The name Manhattan derives from the word Manna-hata, as written in the 1609 logbook of Robert Juet, an officer on Henry Hudson

Henry Hudson

Henry Hudson was an English sea explorer and navigator in the early 17th century. Hudson made two attempts on behalf of English merchants to find a prospective Northeast Passage to Cathay via a route above the Arctic Circle...

's yacht Halve Maen

Halve Maen

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(Half Moon). A 1610 map depicts the name Manahata twice, on both the west and east sides of the Mauritius River (later named the North River, and now called the Hudson River

Hudson River

The Hudson is a river that flows from north to south through eastern New York. The highest official source is at Lake Tear of the Clouds, on the slopes of Mount Marcy in the Adirondack Mountains. The river itself officially begins in Henderson Lake in Newcomb, New York...

). The word "Manhattan" has been translated as "island of many hills" from the Lenape language

Lenape language

The Delaware languages, also known as the Lenape languages, are Munsee and Unami, two closely related languages of the Eastern Algonquian subgroup of the Algonquian language family...

. The Encyclopedia of New York City

The Encyclopedia of New York City

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offers other derivations, including from the Munsee dialect

Dialect

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 of Lenape: manahachtanienk ("place of general inebriation"), manahatouh ("place where timber is procured for bows and arrows"), or menatay ("island").

• • Sapokanikan - habitation site and cultivated area by the cove on the Hudson River
    Hudson River
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     at present day Gansevoort Street, Greenwich Village
    Greenwich Village
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    .
  • Nechtanc - habitation site along the East River
    East River
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     site of Jacob Van Corlaer's plantation at Corlaer's Hook, near the present location of the Manhattan Bridge
    Manhattan Bridge
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    , in the part of the Lower East Side
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     that is now Chinatown
    Chinatown
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    .

• Staten Island
  • Aquehonga - name for Staten Island
  • Manacknong - name for Staten Island
  • Shawkopoke - habitation site and cultivated area along Great Kills Harbor

• Brooklyn
  • Nayack or Wichquawanck - habitation in Bay Ridge near the present location of the Verrazano Narrows Bridge
  • Gowanus - habitation site along the south bank of Gowanus Creek
  • Sassian - habitation site in present Red Hook
    Red Hook, Brooklyn
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• Rockland County, New York
  Rockland County, New York
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  • Monsey
    Monsey, New York
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     - from the name of the Munsees, northern branch of the Lenapes

• New Jersey
  New Jersey
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  • Absecon
    Absecon, New Jersey
    Absecon is a city in Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city population was 8,411.What is now the City of Absecon was originally incorporated as a town by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on February 29, 1872, from portions of Egg Harbor...
    
     - meaning: "place of swans"
  • Assunpink Creek
    Assunpink Creek
    Assunpink Creek is a tributary of the Delaware River in western New Jersey in the United States.Assunpink Creek is born in rural Monmouth County, about a mile north of Clarksburg. Flowing westwards, it soon enters the Assunpink Wildlife Management Area, where it has been dammed to form Rising Sun...
    
     - meaning: "Stony Creek"
  • Communipaw (in downtown
    Downtown Jersey City
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     Jersey City) - "riverside landing place"
  • Hackensack
    Hackensack, New Jersey
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     - "stream flowing into another on a plain/ in a swamp/ in a lowland"
  • Hoboken
    Hoboken, New Jersey
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     - "where pipes are traded"
  • Hohokus
    Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey
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     - "red cedars"
  • Hopatcong - "pipe stone" (NOT "honey waters of many coves" as early 20th-century boosters
    Boosterism
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     would have it)
  • Mahwah
    Mahwah
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     - "meeting place"
  • Manahawkin
    Manahawkin, New Jersey
    Manahawkin is a census-designated place and unincorporated area contained within Stafford Township, in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States. Manahawkin translates to 'land of good corn' although this has been disputed by recent scholars claiming that it translate to “fertile land sloping into...
    
     - "place where there is good land"
  • Manalapan - municipality's name is said to have come from Lenape and is said to mean "land of good bread"
  • Mantoloking
    Mantoloking, New Jersey
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     - said to be either "frog ground", "sandy place" or "land of sunsets"
  • Mantua
    Mantua Township, New Jersey
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     - said to have come from the "Munsees", North Jersey Lenapes, but the township is in South Jersey.
  • Matawan
    Matawan, New Jersey
    Matawan is a borough in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough population was 8,810. The name "Matawan" comes from a Native American Lenape word....
    
     - "hill on either side"
  • Metuchen
    Metuchen, New Jersey
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     - "dry firewood"
  • Minisink - "from the rocky land", is the old name for the Munsee, and the name of an ancient Lenape trade route that ran along a good part of what is now US Highway 46 in Northern New Jersey
  • Musconetcong
    Musconetcong
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  • Netcong
    Netcong, New Jersey
    Netcong is a Borough in Morris County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the borough population was 2,580. Its estimated population in 2006 was 3,292...
    
     - Abbreviation of "Musconetcong".
  • Passaic
    Passaic, New Jersey
    Passaic is a city in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city had a total population of 69,781, maintaining its status as the 15th largest municipality in New Jersey with an increase of 1,920 residents from the 2000 Census population of 67,861...
    
     - "valley" or "river flowing through a valley"
  • Peapack - "place of water roots"
  • Raritan
    Raritan River
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     - original form was Naraticong - may have meant "river behind the island" or "forked river".
  • Scheyichbi. Meaning of name varies. notes two possible meanings: the land that the Lenapes called their country, or "land of the shell money (wampum
    Wampum
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    )".
  • Secaucus
    Secaucus, New Jersey
    Secaucus is a town in Hudson County, New Jersey. As of the 2010 United States Census, the town population was 16,264. Located within the New Jersey Meadowlands, it is the most suburban of the county's municipalities, though large parts of the town are dedicated to light manufacturing, retail, and...
    
     - "black snakes".
  • Weehawken
    Weehawken, New Jersey
    Weehawken is a township in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township population was 12,554.-Geography:Weehawken is part of the New York metropolitan area...
    
     - "place of gulls".

• Pennsylvania
  Pennsylvania
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  • Catasauqua
    Catasauqua, Pennsylvania
    Catasauqua is a borough in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, settled in 1805 and chartered as a borough in 1853. Catasauqua is a suburb of Allentown, Pennsylvania in the Lehigh Valley region of the state....
    
     - "thirsty ground"
  • Conshohocken
    Conshohocken, Pennsylvania
    Conshohocken is a borough on the Schuylkill River in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, in suburban Philadelphia. Historically a large mill town and industrial and manufacturing center, after the decline of industry in recent years Conshohocken has developed into a center of riverfront commercial and...
    
     - original form "Gueno-sheiki-hacking", meaning pleasant valley.
  • Macungie
    Macungie, Pennsylvania
    Macungie is a borough in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is the second oldest borough in the county and a suburb of Allentown, Pennsylvania in the Lehigh Valley region of the state.-History:...
    
     - derived from "Maguntsche", meaning "bear swamp" or "feeding place of the Bears."
  • Manayunk - "place where we go to drink"
  • Passyunk
    Passyunk Township, Pennsylvania
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     - a Philadelphia neighborhood and former township named for a Lenape village (compare to Passaic, New Jersey
    Passaic, New Jersey
    Passaic is a city in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city had a total population of 69,781, maintaining its status as the 15th largest municipality in New Jersey with an increase of 1,920 residents from the 2000 Census population of 67,861...
    
    )
  • Pennypack Creek
    Pennypack Creek
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     - "downward-flowing water" - a creek in and near Philadelphia.
  • Perkiomen Creek
    Perkiomen Creek
    Perkiomen Creek is a tributary of the Schuylkill River in Berks, Lehigh and Montgomery counties in Pennsylvania in the United States.Perkiomen Creek begins in Hereford Township, Berks County, initially flows eastward into Upper Milford Township, Lehigh County, and turns southward to reenter...
    
     - "muddy waters" or "where the cranberries grow" - a creek in central Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
    Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
    Montgomery County is a county located in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, in the United States. As of 2010, the population was 799,874, making it the third most populous county in Pennsylvania . The county seat is Norristown.The county was created on September 10, 1784, out of land originally part...
    
    .
  • Shackamaxon
    Shackamaxon
    Shackamaxon or Shakamaxon was a historic village along the Delaware River inhabited by Delaware Indians in North America. It was located within what are now the borders of the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States....
    
     - on the site of Penn Treaty Park
    Penn Treaty Park
    Penn Treaty Park is a small park on the western bank of the Delaware river, in the Fishtown neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is located at the intersection of Delaware Avenue and Beach Street, just off Delaware Avenue.- Overview :...
    
     in Philadelphia.
  • Tulpehocken
    Tulpehocken
    Tulpehocken may refer to:In New Jersey:*Tulpehocken Creek , a tributary of the Wading RiverIn Pennsylvania:*Tulpehocken Creek , a tributary of the Schuylkill River...
    
     - "land of turtles", the name of a creek and a SEPTA train station and street in Philadelphia
  • Wissahickon - "yellow stream" or "catfish stream" - a creek in and near Philadelphia.

See also

• History of New York City
  History of New York City
  The history of New York, New York begins with the first European documentation of the area by Giovanni da Verrazzano, in command of the French ship, La Dauphine, when he visited the region in 1524. It is believed he sailed in Upper New York Bay where he encountered native Lenape, returned through...
  
  
• History of New Jersey
  History of New Jersey
  The history of New Jersey began at the end of the Younger Dryas climate, about 10 millennia ago. Native Americans moved into New Jersey soon after the reversal of the Younger Dryas, which had made the area uninhabitable and, during the preceding ice age, unreachable.European contact began with the...
  
  
• History of Philadelphia
  History of Philadelphia
  The written history of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, goes back to 1682, when the city was founded by William Penn.Before then, the area was inhabited by the Lenape Indians and Swedish settlers who arrived in the area in the early 17th century...
  
  
• History of Pennsylvania
  History of Pennsylvania
  The history of Pennsylvania is as varied as any in the American experience and reflects the salad bowl vision of the United States. Before Pennsylvania was settled by Europeans, the area was home to the Delaware , Susquehannock, Iroquois, Eries, Shawnee and other Native American tribes...
  
  
• History of New York
  History of New York
  The history of New York begins around 10,000 BCE, when the first Native Americans arrived. By 1100 CE, New York's main tribes, the Iroquoian and Algonquian cultures, had developed. New York was discovered by the French in 1524 and first claimed in 1609 by the Dutch...
  
  
• History of Delaware
  History of Delaware
  The history of Delaware is the story of a small American state, in the middle of the original colonies, and yet until recently often overlooked by outsiders...
  
  
• New Amsterdam
  New Amsterdam
  New Amsterdam was a 17th-century Dutch colonial settlement that served as the capital of New Netherland. It later became New York City....
  
  
• New Netherland
  New Netherland
  New Netherland, or Nieuw-Nederland in Dutch, was the 17th-century colonial province of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands on the East Coast of North America. The claimed territories were the lands from the Delmarva Peninsula to extreme southwestern Cape Cod...
  
  
• Bergen, New Netherland
  Bergen, New Netherland
  Bergen was a part of the 17th century province of New Netherland, in the area in northeastern New Jersey along the Hudson and Hackensack Rivers that would become contemporary Hudson and Bergen Counties...
  
  
• New York metropolitan area
  New York metropolitan area
  The New York metropolitan area, also known as Greater New York, or the Tri-State area, is the region that composes of New York City and the surrounding region...
  
  
• Philadelphia metropolitan area