The Lenni Lenape are the indigenous people whose territory included our present-day New Jersey & eastern PA along the Delaware River watershed, and New York City.
In honor of the people who came before us – and took care of the Delaware River Watershed long before we existed – here are connections between the Lenape and “great river.”
9. The Lenape Woods Nature Preserve, a homage to the tribe, is located in Atlantic Highlands with 51 acres of woodland and wetlands.
10. Today, many descendants of the Lenape people live in Oklahoma and Ontario.
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