Captain Pipe (b. c. 1725? – d. c. 1818?), called Konieschquanoheel and also known as Hopocan, was an 18th-century chief of the Algonquian-speaking Lenape (Delaware) and a member of the Wolf Clan. He was a warrior and succeeded his maternal uncle Custaloga as chief by 1773.
Although Hopocan tried to stay neutral during the American Revolutionary War, after many of his family were killed by Americans, he allied with the British. After the war, he moved his people into Ohio Country, where he made treaties with the Continental Congress to try to protect Lenape land, but settlers continued to encroach on his people. In 1812 he moved with his people westward into present-day Indiana, where some accounts say he died.
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