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Lenni Lenape
The Native American myth “Rainbow Crow” originated from a tribe called the Lenni Lenape. The Lenni Lenape are also known as the Delaware Indians, or sometimes just Delaware. They are a typical Indian Tribe with their own ways of life. The Lenni Lenape are from the from the Northeastern woodlands in Canada and the United States. They lived in various states such as New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York. They also had other territories such as the Delaware River Watershed, Western Long Island, and the Lower Hudson Valley. The Lenape have now moved and can be found in Oklahoma, communities in Wisconsin, and in Ontario, Canada. In 1979 the Bureau of Indian Affairs said that the Lenape were not allowed to live among the Cherokee

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