Lenape Past and Present - 2021 NJ History Conference

This session was recorded on November 12, 2021 during the 2021 New Jersey History Conference, We're Still Here: Indigenous History and Persistence in New Jersey. The session panelists are Timothy J. Crist, Newark History Society, and Jeremy Newman, Associate, Professor of Communications, Stockton University. The panel was moderated by Karelle Hall a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology at Rutgers University.
The New Jersey History Conference is a project of the New Jersey Historical Commission. Although overseen by the conference planning committee, views expressed in all recorded sessions are those of the speakers, and they are responsible for the accuracy of their scholarship.

[@40melt]

I love to see aboriginal peoples lay down their history. especially when I was born and raised in that area. Lake Lenape in Mays Landing NJ was an awesome place. we are of Cherokee ,not Freedman but however colored back into the 1800's.

[@kungfukenny1540]

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[@MegaAli213]

So beautiful. I thank God we found our records dating back to 1650 Virginia, and the Carolinas.

[@Skyhors3]

As a former resident of Hopatcong with an obsessive interest in the Lenape since 1954, I've long believed that "Munsee" was a European mispronunciation of the Lenape word "Minisink," as the name for the northernmost of the 3 clans, the Wolf clan.

[@fgeiger41]

How and why were unwanted squatting colonials supposedly getting
So called Indian "slaves" who were actually POWs were attested to in Long Philip's grandson's book of the account. From day one Indians that refused conversion were referred to as "savage negros." There is the decline of indian population. It's just that simple as their primary weapon was the pen.. which of course is mightier than the sword or musket. population counts of people?

[@cecilehouston9484]

So very interesting!

[@ogamawab]

Anishinaabe and Lenape are the same people.

[@jeannedomek4877]

The Anishanabe are Ojibway. They are in Minnesota.

[@ogamawab]

​@@jeannedomek4877 the word lenape is the same word Anishinaabe.

[@elwoodwhite9734]

Jersey my Home State at the shore central been told my whole life about the indigenous Blacks that have always been there used to go down south Jersey to Mays Landing every summer my fathers companies picnic

[@stormy-le6pb]

The government don't call them indigenous blacks, they call them Lenape Nation. If they R black, the government wouldn't never call them Lenape, but they would B just like all other A.A. with no Lenape blood. Blacks just can't comprehend what being a N.A. is all about. U think U do but no U don't. They arent the same A.A. that the rest of A.A.s are. They are Lenape, not indigenous blacks.

[@stormy-le6pb]

Lenape don't only have African ancestry, they also have European ancestry, making Indians like Lenape, a tri-racial tribe. They're the same as every Indian tribe on this northern continent having some members that have R part white or part black or have both black & white ancestry N them. Lenape happens 2 B a tribe that has more tribal members with African N them than other tribes.

[@NativeVoicesTurtleIslandTV]

where are the Ramapough in this

[@Fonzarelly]

Right here

[@firebirdgraywolf7932]

@@Fonzarelly who are you

[@Fonzarelly]

@@firebirdgraywolf7932 I’m a defreese I’m related to pretty much everyone in the rampoo mountains

[@firebirdgraywolf7932]

@@Fonzarelly Hey brother friend glad you are here.

[@firebirdgraywolf7932]

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[@axellight0189]

Well, it would seem that no one truly knows who these 11 signers were. Thus, all of these allodial patents of Munselands, all resources and minerals are still fully Owned by the original heirs of inhabitants, The Indigenous Popol.

[@Jeanette-gw9qy]

Muncie or Minsi means Wolf clan

[@LAWRENCESmannjr-tm5kn]

My family and I are from the Lenape nation of Jersey

[@LaGarduno]

We need a native moderator