Lenapehoking - Wikipedia
Lenapehoking (Unami: Lënapehòkink [1]) is widely translated as 'homelands of the Lenape', which in the 16th and 17th centuries, ranged along the Eastern seaboard from western Connecticut to Delaware, and encompassed the territory adjacent to the Delaware and lower Hudson river valleys, and the territory between them.
Lenapehoking: The Land of the Lenape - Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Sep 28, 2021 · The Lenape land, or Lenapehoking, included parts of what are now New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Europeans arrived in the 1600s, colonizing this land, taking an unforgivable human toll, and forever altering the natural history of this continent.
This Is Lenapehoking - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
May 12, 2021 · Associate Curator of Native American Art, the American Wing. A bronze plaque installed on the The Met Fifth Avenue’s facade recognizes the homeland of the Indigenous Lenape diaspora.
Lenape - Wikipedia
The historical Lenape country, Lenapehoking (Lënapehòkink), was a large territory that encompassed the Delaware and Lehigh Valley regions of eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey from the north bank of the Lehigh River along the west bank of the Delaware River into Delaware and the Delaware Bay.
The forced removal and relocation of the Lenape, The Original ...
Oct 8, 2024 · The infamous Walking Purchase in 1737, an intentional land swindle by the progeny of William Penn, stole hundreds of thousands of acres in Pennsylvania. With a continuing wave of English immigrants seeking a fresh start in a new land, the Lenape were forced to relocate from their homeland.
The True Native New Yorkers Can Never Truly Reclaim Their ...
Oct 5, 2018 · The area the Lenape occupied before the Europeans arrived was known to them as Lenapehoking, and it covered roughly the area between New York City and Philadelphia, including all of New Jersey,...
Lenapehoking - Brooklyn Public Library
Jan 20, 2022 · "Lenapehoking" is the Lenape name for Lenape homeland, which spans from Western Connecticut to Eastern Pennsylvania, and the Hudson Valley to Delaware, with New York City at its center. Museum institutions have historically overlooked the Lenape genocide in favor of a trade and commerce narrative.