deaths
November 29, 1984
Nora Thompson Dean, American Lenape educator and author (born 1907)

Nora Thompson Dean
Nora Thompson Dean, from Dewey, Oklahoma, was a member of the Delaware Tribe of Indians. As a Lenape traditionalist and one of the last fluent speakers of the southern Unami dialect of the Lenape language, she was an influential mentor to younger tribal members and is widely cited in scholarship on Lenape /luh-NAH-pay/ culture.
Lenape
The Lenape, also called the Lenni Lenape and Delaware people, are an Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands, who live in the United States and Canada.
November 29
November 29 is the 333rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 32 days remain until the end of the year.