Lenapehoking means Lenape homeland, which prior to the Europeans arriving was located along the Atlantic coast from western Connecticut south to Delaware, and included all the land adjacent to the Delaware river, all of the lower Hudson river valleys, and all of the hills and ridge lands between the two rivers.

As told in the story of Joktan′s Journey On, Joktan, after having crossed the land bridge, journeyed across the entire new continent, and after having left the large lakes region, traveled eastward across the low plains below the High Mountains to the north, he then followed the Achgameu Sipu southward to where it would next cut through the eastern mountain. At his point, Joktan called for his sons to make camp and at this junction Joktan tells his four remaining sons that he will next be heading eastward across the mountain pass, then south into the coastal river valleys to find a place to settle.

Once everyone has set up their camps and when dark transcends upon the camp, they all come together and take their places at the council fire. Here, three of Joktan′s sons, Sheba, Uzal and Ophir tell their father Joktan that they will be continuing northward in search for their places to settle.

Jobad, however tells his father that since his wife is still with child, he will stay with his father so that he may be able to hold this grandson at least once before he departs to find his settlement.

Joktan decides to stay in this campsite here on the western side of the mountain range for the period of an entire moon, so that he has plenty of time visit with all of the family of the three sons who will soon be departing company.

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Joktan, who together with his youngest son, Jobad travel through the mountain cut, down the river, and into an area they see as just perfect for a new settlement. It is along a wide river that Joktan names Lenapei Sipu after his newly born grandson, Lenapei. Thus it was this new settlement that was to become the homeland of the descendants of Lenapei and in time it would come to be called Lenapehoking, as it is still called by the Lenape people today.

Some time later, Lenapei takes a wife and also has sons and daughters. The names of his sons are Munsee, Unami and Unalachtigo, and in time, each of these sons of Lenapei travel to find a place in their father′s homeland to raise their own sons and daughters.

When the Europeans arrived and began to settle in North America, they began to encroach upon the homelands of the Lenape, at first with the colonies of New Netherland (1621-1664) and New Sweden (1638-1655), the Lenapehoking was slowly taken from the Lenape. However, when the English began to take away controling intrests from the Dutch and Swedish, it did not take long before the growing English colonies resulted in the total displacement of all surviving tribal peoples of the Lenape.

Later, the US federal government also forcibly displaced the Lenape through Indian removal policies to Ontario in Canada and to the Midwestern United States into what is now Oklahoma, where they are now known as the Delaware Nation and Delaware Tribe of Indians.

The Lenape nations today control lands within: Oklahoma known as the Delaware Nation and Delaware Tribe of Indians; Wisconsin known as the Stockbridge-Munsee Community); and Ontario where they are known as the Munsee-Delaware Nation, the Moravian of the Thames First Nation, and Delaware of Six Nations).