Lenape

The Lenape group gathers the Delawaran-speaking Algonquian peoples of the mid-Atlantic coast: the Munsee, Unami and Unalachtigo, the Lenape or Delaware, whose country around the Delaware River and New York Bay was called Lenapehoking, and the related Mahican of the upper Hudson. They lived in matrilineal clans, grew corn, beans and squash and were never politically unified.

The Dutch founded New Amsterdam in 1624. William Penn first met the Lenape in 1682, and the fraudulent Walking Purchase of 1737 drove them from their land. Lenape settled in Moravian mission towns in Ohio, where Pennsylvania militia killed 96 of them at Gnadenhutten in 1782. After 1680 Mohawk pressure drove many Mahican east to Stockbridge.