{"id":15776,"date":"2022-07-22T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.renthop.com\/content-manager\/?p=15776"},"modified":"2022-07-22T15:01:28","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T19:01:28","slug":"lenape-sites-in-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.renthop.com\/blog\/lenape-sites-in-nyc\/","title":{"rendered":"Lenape Sites in NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
Before European colonization forever reshaped the land we stand on, NYC and the surrounding area was part of the Lenape nation. The Dutch \u201cbought\u201d the land in 1626\u2014though the idea that any land was fairly bought from Indigenous peoples is extremely contentious. Many scholars, historians, and tribes<\/a> agree that it was less of a purchase and more of a swindle.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n The name \u201cManhattan\u201d comes from the Lenape word manahatta,<\/em> roughly meaning \u201chilly island.\u201d Though the Lenape have been largely displaced from their ancestral lands, there is an active, federally recognized tribal government. \u201cWhile the majority of our tribal citizens are still concentrated in southern New Jersey, many of our people now live throughout North America. Our tribe is a charter nation of the \u2018Lenape Confederacy,\u2019 which includes Lenape people from our larger extended family as far away as Oklahoma, Kansas, Indiana, Texas, and Ontario,\u201d reads a statement on the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribe official website<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n