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Sheyichbi and its People
Before the white race came to America, the locality ,now
known as Jersey City, was occupied by a branch of the Minsi
division of the Lenni Lanape Nation of the lied Men, and was
called Sheyichbi. The whole of the present state of New Jersey
belonged to the Lenape, and was occupied by bands bearing
different names according to the special features of the locality,
but all recognizing their unity as one people. Those who lived
here, along the western shore of the New York Bay, extending
to the sea, were known as the Wapings, or Pomptons, and
were the first of the Lenape to, meet the white man when
Verrezano visited this harbor in 1524. Their last home was
along the, Raritan river.
The name Lenni Lenape means "Men
of our Nation," and they claimed to be the oldest nation and root
of the great Algonkin stock, which, in its various divisions, with
forty distinct dialects, occupied this continent fromHudson's
Bay to South Carolina, and from the Atlantic to the, Mississippi
and the great plains, with the exception of a portion east of the
Lakes where the Huron Iroquois dwelt. The other Algonkin
nations were spoken of by them as "children," "grandchildren," or "younger brothers," and to them was always
accorded the respectful title of " grandfathers." Their traditions
taught them that they came from
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