Título: Lenape
Seção: Early colonial era
Background: The Lenape (English:  or ), also called the Leni Lenape, Lenni Lenape and Delaware people, are an indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands, who live in Canada and the United States. Their historical territory included present-day New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania along the Delaware River watershed, New York City, western Long Island, and the Lower Hudson Valley. Today, Lenape people belong to the Delaware Nation and Delaware Tribe of Indians in Oklahoma, the Stockbridge-Munsee Community in Wisconsin, and the Munsee-Delaware Nation, Moravian of the Thames First Nation, and Delaware of Six Nations in Ontario. The Lenape have a matrilineal clan system and historically were matrilocal.

Conteúdo: At the time of sustained European contact in the 16th centuries and 17th centuries, the Lenape were a powerful Native American nation who inhabited a region on the mid-Atlantic coast spanning the latitudes of southern Massachusetts to the southern extent of Delaware in what anthropologists call the Northeastern Woodlands. Although never politically unified, the confederation of the Delaware roughly encompassed the area around and between the Delaware and lower Hudson rivers, and included the western part of Long Island in present-day New York. Some of their place names, such as Manhattan ("the island of many hills"), Raritan, and Tappan were adopted by Dutch and English colonists to identify the Lenape people that lived there. Based on the historical record of the mid-17th century, it has been estimated that most Lenape polities consisted of several hundred people but it is conceivable that some had been considerably larger prior to close contact, given the wars between the Susquehannocks and the Iroquois, both of whom were armed by the Dutch fur traders, while the Lenape were at odds with the Dutch and so lost that particular arms race.  During the Beaver Wars in the first half of the 17th century, European colonists were careful to keep firearms from the coastally located Delaware, while rival Iroquoian peoples such as the Susquehannocks and Confederation of the Iroquois became comparatively well armed. Subsequently, the Lenape became subjugated and made tributary to first 

user: When was the early colonial era?

assistant: 16th centuries and 17th centuries,

user: What happened in the 16th century?

assistant: the Lenape were a powerful Native American nation who inhabited a region on the mid-Atlantic coast

user: What did the Lenape do during the 16th century?

assistant: Some of their place names, such as Manhattan ("the island of many hills"), Raritan, and Tappan were adopted by Dutch and English colonists to

user: What happened in the 17th century?

assistant: the Beaver Wars

user: What were the Beaver Wars?

assistant: European colonists were careful to keep firearms from the coastally located Delaware,

user: Why did they keep firearms from the Delaware?

assistant: CANNOTANSWER

user: Did the Europeans trade weapons with any of the tribes?

assistant: rival Iroquoian peoples such as the Susquehannocks and Confederation of the Iroquois became comparatively well armed.

user: How were the Lenape involved in the Beaver Wars?

assistant: the Lenape became subjugated