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What was life like in the 17th century for the lenape?
Lenape population fell sharply during this period, due to fatalities from epidemics of infectious diseases carried by Europeans. Some 20,000 new colonists displaced many Lenape in the decades following.
Were outsiders not welcome for the Lenape?
After the Dutch arrival in the 1620s, the Lenape were successful in restricting Dutch settlement until the 1660s to Pavonia in present-day Jersey City along the Hudson.

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