The Lenape
When Europeans first arrived on the shores of what would become the United States, in many places it would be the Lenape that greeted them. Masters of vaste swathes of woodlands across the Eastern Seaboard, which they knew as the Lenapehoking, they would come to dominate the American psyche in mythologised form long after they had been driven from their lands. Tamanend, chief of chiefs of the Lenape clans, was revered as a patron saint of the fledling nation, and their names still decorate their former range - among them Delaware and Manhattan Island.
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When Europeans first arrived on the shores of what would become the United States, in many places it would be the Lenape that greeted them. Masters of vaste swathes of woodlands across the Eastern Seaboard, which they knew as the Lenapehoking, they would come to dominate the American psyche in mythologised form long after they had been driven from their lands. Tamanend, chief of chiefs of the Lenape clans, was revered as a patron saint of the fledling nation, and their names still decorate their former range - among them Delaware and Manhattan Island.
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