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Lenape (noun) means a member of an indigenous people who lived around the Delaware River, New Jersey and New York before European settlers arrived.

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A member of an indigenous people who lived around the Delaware River, New Jersey and New York before European settlers arrived.

"Endless generations of Lenape stretching down the lines of the past—changed, though not destroyed, by colonialism." — N. K. Jemisin, The City We Became (2020)

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