You guys want a little more information on the Lenape (Delaware) Indians, here's what Buck had on one of his pages, when talking about a family member that was of such breeding. Concho. - ----------------------------------------------- The Lennie-Lenape & Our Connection At one time the Lenape (Delawares), formed a confederacy, the most important of the Algonquian stock, consisting of the Munsee, Unami, and Unalachtigo divisions, speaking different dialects and occupying the basin of the Delaware river in eastern Pennsylvania and southeastern New York, and also most of New Jersey and Delaware. According to tribal tradition the Delawares had a common origin with the Nanticoke, Conoy, Shawnee, and Mahican. When they made their first treaty with William Penn in 1682 their council fire was at Shackamaxon, about the present Germantown, Pennsylvania. One of their great chiefs at this period was Tamanend, from whom the Tammany Society takes its name. In 1720 the Iroquois assumed dominion over them. This condition lasted until about the opening of the French and Indian War. Encroachments by the whites forced them across the mountains; by 1742 the main body located on the Susquehanna, at Wyoming and other points. By 1760 owing to Iroquois pressure and by invitation of the Hurons they commenced to form settlements in eastern Ohio, and in a short time the grater part of the Delawares, together with the Munsee (often referred to as distinct) and Mahican, had become established on the Muskingum and other streams of that region. Being now within reach of the French and supported by the western tribes, the Delawares were enabled to cast off the Iroquois yoke, and up to the treaty of Greenville to come in 1795 they were the most determined opponents of the advancing whites. By permission of the Miami and Piankashaw, about 1770, they settled in the country between the Ohio and White rivers in Indiana, and with the sanction of the Spanish Government in 1789 a part of them, together with some Shawnee, moved to Missouri and later to Arkansas. By 1820 the two bands had found their way to Texas, where at that time the Delawares numbered about 700. By 1835 most of the tribe had been gathered on a reservation in Kansas, whence they were removed in 1867 to Indian Territory (Oklahoma) and incorporated with the Cherokee Nation. Another band is affiliated with the Caddo and Wichita in Western Oklahoma, and in addition there are a few scattered remnants in the Untied States and several hundred in Canada where they are known as Delawares, Munsee, and Moravians. After many years of investigation it has been narrowed down that John Westley Connor's wife's mother (a 1/2 Native American) was probably of the Lennie-Lenape tribe because of words and sign found in a family Bible, and a letter written that she had been carried by her mother from eastern Ohio in early winter back to family in Harrisburg Pennsylvania after getting away from her capturers in Nov. 1856, making E. Helen Thomas - her daughter, a breed of 1/2 white and 1/2 Lenape heritage. - ----------------------------------------------- - ---- Begin Original Message ---- Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Delaware Indians Thanks Wynn for the note, The Delawares or Lenape speak an Algonquin language. The Delawares lived around Westville(present day kansas City) andLawrence,Ks. from the 1820's to 1867-68. (One of their many stops during the migration west from their homeland along the Delaware River Valley at European contact. I'll check out Dean's site(great site for trade lists, too.) in more detail concerning Delawares. Thanks again, Don Secondine - -------------------- >In a post not long go someone asked about referances to Delaware Indians in the fur trade. I went to Deans AMM site and entered Delware in the search. I go a dozen or so responces including Irvings quote: > >. The conference ended, Fontenelle sent a Delaware Indian of his party to conduct fifteen of the Blackfeet to the camp of Captain Bonneville. > >Also, it is my belief for what that is worth that many referances to Iroquois are really not being tribe specific. The Iroquois were a large presense and they were known to adopt other tribes into the league so it would be easy to refer to something like the Iroquois with Peter S Ogden when in fact there were more tribes represented. I can not remember now if the Delaware were in the same lingistic group as the Iroquois but if they are that would make the link even closer. > >Sorry to be so slow to respond to your inquiry. > >Wynn Ormond - ---- End Original Message ----

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