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The Lenni-lenape lived there in NJ (called the Delaware by the European).
Europeans first settled in New Jersey in 1620. The Lenni-Lenape had lived here for many years before this.
Lenni Lenape means men of men or originial people. The Lenni Lenape tribe were called the Delaware Indians by Europeans. They lived in New Jersey, Delaware, southern New York and eastern Pennsylvania in the 1600s.
why did the lenape settle in the new jersey area
15000
The Lenni-Lenape
LENI Lenape !
Also called the Lenape, they lived along the Delaware and lower Hudson Rivers in what is now New Jersey and New York, but anthropologists call the area the Northeastern Woodlands.
they came to new jersey to live here for they could eat food and where clothes
They live along Delaware and Hudson Rivers. Addition: The Lenni Lenapes were original people of the mid-Atlantic area. The Lenapes were found in New Jersey, Delaware, New York and Pennsylvania. Most Lenape Indians were driven out of their homeland by the British to the Ohio area. The Americans eventually relocated them to Oklahoma, Canada, and Wisconsin, where the modern Delaware Indian tribes are located today. Other Lenape people joined the Nanticoke or Munsee Delawares. There are also some small Lenne Lenape communities remaining in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The total Lenape population is estimated around 16,000.
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