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History of Delaware

Native Americans

Before Delaware was settled by Europeans, the area was home to the Eastern Algonquian tribes known as the Unami Lenape or Delaware throughout the Delaware valley, and the Nanticoke along the rivers leading into the Chesapeake Bay. The Unami Lenape in the Delaware valley were closely related to Munsee Lenape tribes along the Hudson River. They had a settled hunting and agricultural society, and rapidly became middlemen in an increasingly frantic fur trade with their ancient enemy, the Minqua or Susquehannock. With the loss of their lands on the Delaware River, and the destruction of the Minqua by the Iroquois of the Five Nations in the 1670’s, the remnants of the Lenape left the region and moved over the Alleghany Mountains by the mid 18th century.
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