Algonquins II (Lenape)

The first recorded European contact with people presumed to have been the Lenape was in 1524. The explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano was greeted by local Lenape who came by canoe, after his ship entered what is now called Lower New York Bay...  the confederation of the Lenape roughly encompassed the area around and between the Delaware and lower Hudson rivers, and included the western part of Long Island in present-day New York. Some of their place names, such as Manhattan ("the island of many hills"), Raritan, and Tappan were adopted by Dutch and English colonists to identify the Lenape people that lived there... Europeans often confused their culture with that of neighboring tribes such as the Iroquois.

After the Dutch arrival and brief establishment of Fort Nassau (along the bank of the Delaware River in present-day Gloucester City, New Jersey) in the 1620s, the Lenape were successful in restricting Dutch settlement until the 1660s to no further than Pavonia in present-day Jersey City along the Hudson. 

the Susquehannocks and Confederation of the Iroquois defeated the Lenape, the Lenape referred to the Susquehannock as "uncles". The Iroquois Confederacy added the Lenape to the Covenant Chain in 1676. 

In 1682, William Penn and Quaker colonists created the English colony of Pennsylvania beginning at the lower Delaware River. A peace treaty was negotiated between the newly arriving colonists and Lenape at what is now known as Penn Treaty Park.

William Penn died in 1718. In the mid-1730s, his heirs, John and Thomas Penn, abandoned many of William Penn's practices, and in an attempt to raise money, they contemplated ways to sell Lenape land to colonial settlers, and according to historian Steven C. Harper, what followed was a "convoluted sequence of deception, fraud, and extortion orchestrated by the Pennsylvania government who mysteriously produced a draft of a land deed dating back  to the 1680s. In the end, all Lenape who still lived on the Delaware were driven off the remnants of their homeland under threats of violence under the Walking Purchase.

The Lenape were tributary to the Confederation until 1753 

Beginning in the 18th century, the Lenape initially sided with France, since they hoped to prevent further European colonial encroachment in their settlements. Then chiefs Teedyuscung in the east and Tamaqua near present-day Pittsburgh shifted to building alliances with British colonial authorities. 

Lenape leader Killbuck (also Bemino) assisted the British against the French and their Indian allies. In 1761, Killbuck led a British supply train from Fort Pitt to Fort Sandusky. 

In 1763, Bill Hickman, a Lenape, warned English colonists in the Juniata River region of present-day Pennsylvania of an impending attack

In the American Revolutionary War, the Lenape claimed to be neutral, while neighboring Indian communities, particularly the Wyandot, the Mingo, the Shawnee, and the Wolf Clan of the Lenape, favored the British, because they believed that the Royal Proclamation of 1763, restricting Anglo-American settlement to east of the Appalachian Mountains, the British would help them preserve a Native American territory.