Map showing the Lenapehoking region.

Lenapehoking is a term ascribed to the Lenape American Indians as the name in the Delaware language of the region they inhabited along the East Coast of the United States. Like much of Algonquian toponymy, there is some confusion about the meaning and history of the name. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (682x870, 490 KB) Map showing the Lenapehoking region. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (682x870, 490 KB) Map showing the Lenapehoking region. ... The Lenape or Lenni-Lenape (later named Delaware Indians by Europeans) were, in the 1600s, loosely organized bands of Native American peoples. ... A Sioux in traditional dress including war bonnet, circa 1908. ... Lenape (also called Delaware) is a language in the Algonquian language family spoken by the Lenape people. ... The Algonquian (also Algonkian) languages are a subfamily of Native American languages that includes most of the languages in the Algic language family (others are Wiyot and Yurok of northwestern California). ... Toponymy is the taxonomic study of toponyms (place-names), their origins and their meanings. ...

At the time of the arrival of the Europeans in the 16th and 17th century, the Lenape homeland generally encompassed the territory adjacent to the Delaware and lower Hudson river valleys, as well the territory between them. It stretched from modern-day Delaware to western Connecticut and Long Island and included parts of eastern Pennsylvania all of present day New Jersey, New York Bay, and the southern counties of New York State, including New York Harbor and the five boroughs of New York City. World map exhibiting the location of Europe. ... (15th century - 16th century - 17th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 16th century was that century which lasted from 1501 to 1600. ... (16th century - 17th century - 18th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 17th century was that century which lasted from 1601-1700. ... The Delaware River is a river on the Atlantic coast of the United States. ... The Hudson River, called Muh-he-kun-ne-tuk in Mahican, is a river running mainly through New York State but partly forming the boundary between the states of New York and New Jersey. ... Official language(s) None Capital Dover Largest city Wilmington Area  Ranked 49th  - Total 2,491 sq mi (6,452 km²)  - Width 30 miles (48 km)  - Length 100 miles (161 km)  - % water 21. ... It has been suggested that this article be split into multiple articles. ... Map showing Long Island; to the north is Connecticut and to the west are New York City and New Jersey. ... Official language(s) English, Pennsylvania Dutch Capital Harrisburg Largest city Philadelphia Area  Ranked 33rd  - Total 46,055 sq mi (119,283 km²)  - Width 280 miles (455 km)  - Length 160 miles (255 km)  - % water 2. ... For the Bon Jovi album, see New Jersey (album) Official language(s) None, English de facto Capital Trenton Largest city Newark Area  Ranked 47th  - Total 8,729 sq mi (22,608 km²)  - Width 70 miles (110 km)  - Length 150 miles (240 km)  - % water 14. ... New York Bay is the collective term for the marine areas surrounding the entrance of the Hudson River into the Atlantic Ocean. ... NY redirects here. ... New York Harbor, a geographic term, refers collectively to the rivers, bays, and tidal estuaries near the mouth of the Hudson River in the vicinity of New York City. ... Nickname: Big Apple, Gotham, NYC Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island Settled 1613  - Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area    - City 1,214. ...

According to some people, who have misunderstood the origin of this word, the Lenape called this territory "Lenapehoking", meaning "in the land of the Lenape." This assertion has gained widespread acceptance and is found widely in recent literature on the Lenape, including in the websites of purported Lenape people. Ray Whritenour, a philologist, says that the term does not appear in any sources from the 18th century, but is a modern name coined by Nora Thompson Dean ("Touching Leaves Woman") in 1984, in order to provide the archaeologist/author, Herbert C. Kraft, with a convenient term for the area once inhabited by ancestors of the Lenape people.

Other Lenape place names

Lenape place names within the region included:

• Manhattan
  • Sapokanikan - habitation site and cultivated area on the Hudson River north of, or around, present day Greenwich Village
  • Nechtanc - habitation site along the East River near the present location of the Manhattan Bridge, in what is now part of Chinatown.

• Staten Island
  • Aquehonga - name for Staten Island
  • Manacknong - name for Staten Island
  • Shawkopoke - habitation site and cultivated area along Great Kills Harbor

• Brooklyn
  • Nayack or Wichquawanck - habitation in Bay Ridge near the present location of the Verrazano Narrows Bridge
  • Gowanus - habitation site along the south bank of Gowanus Creek
  • Sassian - habitation site in present Red Hook

• Upstate New York
  • Monsey - from the name of the Munsees, northern branch of the Lenapes

• New Jersey

• • Manalapan - municipality's name is said to have come from Lenape and is said to mean "land of good bread"
  • Absecon - meaning: "place of swans" [1]
  • Assunpink Creek - meaning: "Stony Creek" [2]
  • Communipaw (in downtown Jersey City) - "riverside landing place" [3]
  • Hackensack - "stream flowing into another on a plain/ in a swamp/ in a lowland" [4]
  • Hohokus - "red cedars" [5]
  • Manahawkin - "place where there is good land"
  • Mantua - said to have come from the "Munsees", North Jersey Lenapes, but the township is in South Jersey. [6]
  • Metuchen - "dry firewood" [7]
  • Matawan - "hill on either side" [8]
  • Passaic - "valley" or "river flowing through a valley" [9]
  • Peapack - "place of water roots" [10]
  • Raritan - original form was Naraticong - may have meant "river behind the island" or "forked river". [11]
  • Scheyichbi. Meaning of name varies. Rootsweb.com notes two possible meanings: the land that the Lenapes called their country, or "land of the shell money (wampum)". [12]
  • Secaucus - "black snakes". [13]
  • Weehawken - "place of gulls". [14]

• Pennsylvania
  • Manayunk - "place where we go to drink"
  • Shackamaxon, on the site of Penn Treaty Park near Philadelphia.

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Order of the Arrow Lodge IX

Lenapehoking is also the name of an Order of the Arrow lodge, number IX, in the Northern New Jersey Council of the Boy Scouts of America. The Order of the Arrow (OA) is a program of the Boy Scout division of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA). ...

See also

• History of New York City
• New Amsterdam

// Main article: History of New York City (prehistory-1664) Prehistory in the area began with the geological formation of the peculiar territory of what is today New York City. ... New Amsterdam (Dutch: Nieuw Amsterdam) was the name of the 17th century town which grew outside of Fort Amsterdam on Manhattan Island in the New Netherland territory (1614–1674) which was situated between 38 and 42 degrees latitude as a provincial extension of the Dutch Republic since 1624. ...

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