If you know where to look, the imprint of New Jersey's indigenous people remains across Monmouth and Ocean counties and the people are still here.
The names are woven into daily life across Central Jersey, often spoken without a second thought. Raritan, Metuchen, Piscataway, Cheesequake, Peapack-Gladstone, Perth Amboy, Rahway and Watchung all ...
Tyrese Gould Jacinto and her father, Chief Mark Gould, of the Native American Advancement Corporation, acquired a church and 63 acres of land in Salem County with the help of Rob Ferber (right) of the ...
41st Annual Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation Pow-Wow at the Salem County Fairgrounds in Pilesgrove Township, Sunday, June 12, 2022.Get Photo Ashwin Telang works at the Borgen Project and Meta ...
Long before North Jersey had hundreds of town halls and borough lines, the region’s rivers, valleys and villages had names rooted in Lenape dialects. Some of those names still mark the map of ...
The Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation, an American Indian tribe of 3,000 members, filed a civil-rights action lawsuit in federal court against the state and Gov. Chris Christie’s administration ...
Many of Central Jersey’s town and place names trace their origins to the Lenni Lenape language, geography and leaders. While spellings and meanings evolved over time through European interpretation, ...
The Lenni Lenape, or "Original People," inhabited the region for thousands of years before European colonization. Conflict, disease, and land disputes led to the forced displacement of most Lenape ...
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