Lenape - Contemporary Tribes and Organizations

Contemporary Tribes and Organizations

Three Lenape tribes are federally recognized in the United States. They are as follows:

• Delaware Tribe of Indians, Bartlesville, Oklahoma
• Delaware Nation, Anadarko, Oklahoma
• Stockbridge-Munsee Community, Wisconsin.

In Ontario, Canada, there are three Lenape First Nations with four Indian reserves. They are:

• Munsee-Delaware Nation 1, Ontario, Canadian reserve.
• Moravian of the Thames First Nation, Canadian reserve.
• Delaware of Six Nations (at Six Nations of the Grand River), two Canadian reserves.

New Jersey has two state recognized tribes, who are in part Lenape: the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Indians of New Jersey and Ramapough Lenape Nation. Over a dozen unrecognized tribes claim Lenape descent. Unrecognized Lenape organizations in Colorado, Idaho, and Kansas have petitioned the US federal government for recognition.

Some Lenape or Delaware live in communities known as Urban Indians in their historic homeland in a number of states such as Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey and Virginia. They also live in the New England States; within the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma. New York City and Philadelphia are known to have some Lenape residents; and others live in diaspora across the country.