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The Lenape Indian Tribe of Delaware, referred to as “the Tribe” in this section, has an unbroken history of hundreds of years of settlement and continued residency in the vicinity of the Town of Cheswold in Kent County.The Tribe can date their ancestral ties as far back as the early 1700s.The Tribe was formerly known as “the Moors” and, for many decades of the twentieth century, state documents such as driver’s licenses designated the Tribe’s race with an “M”.The Delaware School Code of 1921 provided that the State Board of Education could establish a school “for the children of people called Moors.”
Lenape Indian Tribe of Delaware; recognition.(https://delcode.delaware.gov/title29/c001/index.html)


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