At the time of European arrival in North America, the Lenape Indians lived in what is now the Delaware Bay area, including the northeast corner of Maryland, the Schuylkill, Delaware and lower Hudson River valleys, and western Long Island. The Lenape were decimated by European diseases and caught in the middle of European wars, so they were forced to move further west and north. There are still communities of the Lenape in Ontario, Wisconsin and Oklahoma, where they were grouped with the Cherokee for decades.
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