ジョバンニ・ダ・ヴェラッツァーノ
At the time of European contact, the Lenape people (named the "Delaware" by Europeans) inhabited the western end of the Island, and spoke the Munsee dialect of the Algonquian language family. Giovanni da Verrazzano was the first European to record an encounter with these people when he entered what is now New York Bay in 1524.