New York: William Morrow & Company, 1953. — 160 p. For the sixth volume in her authoritative series about North American Indians, Miss Bleeker has chosen a tribe whose former territory is now Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey and southern New York... This important tribe's typical habits and customs, legends and ceremonies, are presented through the eyes of one...
Philadelphia: D.G. Brinton, 1885. — 263 p. — (Brinton's Library of Aboriginal American Literature, No. V). Contains the complete text and symbols, 184 in number, of the Walam Olum or Red Score of the Delaware Indians, with the full original text, and a new translation, notes and vocabulary. A lengthy introduction treats of the Lenape or Delawares, their history, customs, myths,...
Chelsea House Publishers, 1989. — 112 p. — (Indians of North America). — ISBN: 1-55546-712-1. The Lenapes traditionally lived along the Middle Atlantic coast in what are now New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Delaware. There they tended crops, fished, hunted, and traded with neighboring tribes. The Lenapes were among the first Indians to encounter the English, French, and...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2002, — 232 p. Voices from the Delaware Big House Ceremony examines and celebrates the Big House ceremony, the most important Delaware Indian religious observance to be documented historically. Edited by Robert S. Grumet, this compilation of essays offers diverse perspectives, from both historical documents and contemporary accounts, which shed light...
New York: Museum of the American Indian Heye Foundation, 1921. — 249 p. — (Indian Notes and Monographs). The following paper is intended to be the first of a series concerning different phases of the culture of the Lenape or Delaware Indians, once a numerous people forming a confederacy of three closely related tribes, the Unami, the Minsi or Muncey, and the Unala"tko or...
Rutgers University Press, 1963. — 352 p. Here is a story of the Lenape Indians who lived in what is now New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania. It describes their culture, crafts, and language as no other book has done. Hunters, fishers, artisans of flint and skins and basketry, tellers of traditional tales, dwellers in a region of hills and barrens, of rivers and forests, they had...
Bridgestone Books, 2002. — 24 p. — (Native Peoples). — ISBN: 0-7368-1104-4. An overview of the past and present lives of the Delaware (also known as Lenape) Indians, including their history, homes, food, clothing, family life, customs, religion, and government.
Harrisburg: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1977. — 145 p. — (Anthropological Series, Number 3). From early childhood, author Gladys Tantaquidgeon, a Mohican Indian, has been keenly interested in the history & traditions of her people. She studied anthropology in college, & has done research among the surviving eastern Algonkian...
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