There is no single American Indian culture or language. Learn more
There are three tribes in NJ recognized by the State of New Jersey:
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The Encyclopedia of Native American Religions by 
Native American Methodists : a reading list by 
Native Americans : an encyclopedia of history, culture, and peoples by 
American Indian liberation : a theology of sovereignty by American Indian Stories (e-book) by 
American Indian thought : philosophical Essays by 
As We Have Always Done : Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance (e-book) by 
Becoming Rooted: One Hundred Days of Reconnecting with Sacred Earth by 
Black Elk speaks : being the life story of a holy man of the Oglala Sioux by 
Braiding Sweetgrass by 
Christ Is a Native American by 
Claiming Turtle Mountain's constitution: the history, legacy, and future of a tribal nation's founding documents (e-book) by 
The Colonial compromise: threat of the gospel to the indigenous worldview by 
Coming down from above : prophecy, resistance, and renewal in Native American religions by 
Conquest : sexual violence and American Indian genocide by 
Cosmology and moral community in the Lakota Sun Dance : reconceptualizing J. R. Walker's account by 
Cross-Cultural Collaboration Native Peoples and Archaeology in the Northeastern United States (e-book) by 
Finding God on the Indian road : exploring the intersectionality between Native American and Christian spiritual living by 
Fleshing the spirit : spirituality and activism in Chicana, Latina, and indigenous women's lives by 
For this land : writings on religion in America by 
Glory Happening: Finding the Divine in Everyday Places (e-book) by 
God Is Red : A Native View of Religion, 30th Anniversary Edition (e-book) by 
God, war, and providence : the epic struggle of Roger Williams and the Narragansett Indians against the Puritans of New England by 
A History of Religion in America by 
In Divided Unity: Haudenosaunee Reclamation at Grand River (e-book) by 
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by 
Indigenous theology and the western worldview : a decolonized approach to Christian doctrine by 
Ishi means man : Essays on Native Americans by The Jesuit relations : natives and missionaries in seventeenth-century North America by 
Ka poʻe moʻo akua = Hawaiian reptilian water deities by 
The land is not empty : following Jesus in dismantling the doctrine of discovery (e-book) by 
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by 
Learning native wisdom : what traditional cultures teach us about subsistence, sustainability, and spirituality by 
Making Lamanites : Mormons, Native Americans, and the Indian Student Placement Program, 1947-2000 by 
Maya Sacred Geography and the Creator Deities by 
Merton and Indigenous Wisdom by 
The Metaphysics of Modern Existence by 
Mission and the cultural other: a closer look by 
Native : identity, belonging, and rediscovering God (e-book) by 
Native American Prophecies by 
Native American Religion by 
Native American religions : an introduction by 
Native American religious identity : unforgotten gods by 
Native American Religious Traditions by 
Native American spirituality : a critical reader by Native American testimony : an anthology of Indian and white relations ; first encounter to dispossession by 
A Native American Theology by 
Native and Christian: indigenous voices on religious identity in the United States and Canada (e-book) by 
Pacifist Prophet: Papunhank and the Quest for Peace in Early America (e-book) by Pre-Columbian literatures of Mexico by Propheten und Erlöser : religiöse Erweckungsbewegungen bei den Indianern Nordamerikas by 
Quakers and Native Americans by 
Recognition, Sovereignty Struggles, and Indigenous Rights in the United States (e-book) by 
Recovering Native American Writings in the Boarding School Press (e-book) by 
Rescuing the Gospel from the cowboys : a Native American expression of the Jesus way by 
Sámi Nature-Centered Christianity in the European Arctic by 
The Seminole Baptist churches of Oklahoma : maintaining a traditional community by 
Separate Paths: Lenapes and Colonists in West New Jersey (e-book) by Tallahassee and the name game (Thesis (Ph. D.)--Princeton Theological Seminary) by 
Teaching spirits : understanding Native American religious traditions by 
Tribal Theory in Native American Literature: Dakota and Haudenosaunee Writing and Indigenous Worldviews (e-book) by 
Unsettling worship : reforming liturgy for right relations with indigenous communities by 
Walking to Magdalena : personhood and place in Tohono O'odham songs, sticks, and stories by 
White Birch, Red Hawthorn: a memoir (e-book) by 
The Winona LaDuke reader : a collection of essential writings by 
Wisdomkeepers : meetings with Native American spiritual elders by There is no single American Indian culture or language. Learn more
There are three state recognized tribes in NJ: the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribe, the Powhatan Renape Tribe and the Ramapough Lenape Indian Nation.
Highlighting the Native American youth of Bridgeton, New Jersey, Dance With Me: The Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Indians of New Jersey reveals this small Tribe's struggles and hopes for its future. The film explores the importance of the Christian Church, recent successes in securing Tribal lands, and the need for Tribal youth to get active to hold on to what is theirs.
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