They chose a peaceful relationship with the few early white settlers. This tribe was a smaller territorial group from the Algonquins who inhabited the wilderness from Labrador to the Carolinas and from the Atlantic to the Great Plains. The Lenape spoke a Munsee dialect of the Delaware language, a phonetic language with no alphabet. Their words were not recorded by them but by the early white settlers who attempted to duplicate the words using Dutch, English and other alphabets.
Definitions are often imprecise as the words themselves.
The name Indian being a misnomer arising from Christopher Columbus' belief that he had sailed to the outer reaches of India. Though its meaning remains uncertain, it is the name of the valley that encompasses Park Ridge. It was a fortified structure built to withstand an attack by any unhappy Indian tribe that may have traveled by. It was the first commercial business in this section of Bergen County. Its primary function was a trading post.