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How the Lenape Nation fights to protect the Delaware River, its ancestral home • Apr. 23, 2025, 6:48 AM ET (CBS)

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Also Known As	Lenni Lenape • Lenape

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Northeast Indian Abenaki Pequot Iroquoian peoples Wendat Menominee Kickapoo Mohawk Seneca Ho-Chunk Ojibwe

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David Brainerd

American missionary

Frank Gouldsmith Speck

American anthropologist