Total population | |
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extinct as a tribe | |
Regions with significant populations | |
United States ( New Jersey) | |
Languages | |
English, historically Unami | |
Religion | |
Christianity, Native American Church, traditional tribal religion | |
Related ethnic groups | |
other Lenape |
The Pompton or Pamapon people were a sub-tribe of Algonquian-speaking Native Americans, who once lived northern New Jersey. The Pompton historically lived along Pompton and Pequannock Rivers, near what is now Paterson, New Jersey, but they were forced out of New Jersey after their lands had been taken without compensation by European colonists.[1]