SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE MIDDLE COLONIES NEW YORK DELAWARE NEW JERSEY PENNSYLVANIA
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original people
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the last people
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The name Lenni Lenape, also Leni Lenape and Lenni Lenapi, comes from their autonym, Lenni, which may mean “genuine, pure, real, original", and Lenape, meaning “real person” or “original person” (cf. Anishinaabe, in which-naabe, cognate with Lenape, means “man” or “male").
Detailed explanation-2: -The early Lenape were a loose confederation of independent communities. They lived mainly in the Delaware River Valley and land west that separated the Delaware and Susquehanna watersheds. The Delaware River was their domain; their council-fire was at Shakamaxon located in what is now Philadelphia.
Detailed explanation-3: -They are taller than we are, they are a bronze color, some tending more towards whiteness, others a tawny color; the face is clean cut, the hair is long, and their manner is sweet and gentle, very much like that of the ancients. They have all the proportions belonging to any well-built men.
Detailed explanation-4: -They have often been mistakenly referred to as “Siwanoy, ” a name they almost certainly never called themselves, but which nonetheless has become deeply entrenched in our literature. Sometimes scholars also call them “Munsee”–after the name of the Lenape dialect they spoke.