New Jersey has moved to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a Native American tribe that claims the state gave it official recognition decades ago but then rescinded it.
The Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation filed a civil rights lawsuit against New Jersey and Attorney General John Hoffman, claiming they were wrong in not recognizing the Nation as an official American Indian tribe.
In middle school, we learned that most of South Jersey was settled by the Lenni-Lenape Indian tribe. There is even a high school in Burlington County named “Lenape.”
The Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation, an American Indian tribe of 3,000 members, filed a civil-rights action lawsuit in federal court against the state and Gov. Chris Christie’s administration Monday.
The Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation filed a lawsuit in federal court on Monday out of fears it could lose its recognition status in New Jersey.The tribe was recognized by the state in 1982 in a law that is still on the books.