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Unalachtigo Lenape
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The Unalachtigo were a purported division of the Lenape (Delaware Indians), a Native American tribe whose homeland Lenapehoking[lower-alpha 1] was in what is today the Northeastern United States. They were part of the Forks Indians.[3]
![]() Lenapehoking, the original Lenape territory.[1] The Unalachtigo are from the southern region in dark green | |
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English, formerly Unami | |
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traditional tribal religion | |
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Other Lenape |
The name was a Munsee language term for the Unami-speakers of west-central New Jersey. Moravian missionaries called the Lenape people of the Forks region near Easton, Pennsylvania "Unami," and the Northern Unami language-speakers in New Jersey "Unalachtigo." It is debated whether Unalachtigo constituted a distinct dialect of Unami.[4] Unalachtigo words were recorded in 17th-century vocabulary drawn from the Sankhikan band of Lenape in New Jersey.[5]
The Sankhikan band were enemies of the Manhattan people, who spoke Munsee[5]