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Renápe - location Munsee, Quiripi, Conoy, Powhatan, Pamlico |
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Possible location of Renápe and other Algonquian nations c. 700-1000 AD
The Renápe homeland c. 1600 AD
● = Algonquian The Renápe were settled along the Atlantic coast from the Cape Hatteras north to Lake Champlain. The position of the Lenápe in the Delaware Valley in 1600 AD almost splitting the Renápe territory in two, may have been caused by the expansion of Iroquoian speakers that uprooted the Lenápe from their territory along the eastern part of the Great Lakes area eastward and also pressured the Renápe. That pressure in turn pushed the Nenápe speakers from the Hudson Valley and from the lower reaches of the Connecticut Valley and the western part of Long Island by Renápes taking refuge from the Iroquoians.
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Sources:
Rudes, Blair (1997). Resurrecting Wampano (Quiripi) from the Dead, Phonological Preliminaries. In Anthropological Linguistics, Vol. 39. No. 1, Spring.
Forbes, Jack (1986). The Renape People: A Brief Survey of Relationships and Migrations. Wicazo Sa Review, v2 n1 p14-20, Spr 1986.