Describes the history of the Delaware Indians, their social life, religion, encounter with Europeans, and the Native Americans today.

"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 Unalachtigo, first encountered by the whites in what is now New Jersey, Delaware, eastern Pennsylvania, and southeastern New York, but at last accounts reduced to some 1900 souls scattered in Oklahoma and the Province of Ontario, Canada, with a few in Wisconsin and Kansas."--Page 13.

Examines the history, culture, and changing fortunes of the Lenape (also known as Delaware) Indians.

Describes the lives and fates of several midwestern mound-building Native American tribes.

An introduction to the history, social structure, customs, and present life of the Wampanoag who lived in Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

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