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Turquie (Turkey) (search for this): entry delaware-indians
Delaware (Delaware, United States) (search for this): entry delaware-indians
Delaware Indians,
An important family of the Algonquian nation, also called Lenni-Lenapes, or men.
When the Europeans found them, they were dwelling in detached bands, under separate sachems on the Delaware River.
The Dutch traded with them as early as 1613, and held friendly relations with them; but in 1632 the Dutch settlement of Swanendael was destroyed by them.
The Swedes found them peaceful when they settled on the Delaware.
This family claim to have come from the west with the Mi ttled in Kansas, where missions were established among them, and they rapidly increased in the arts of civilized life.
In the Civil War, the Delawares furnished 170 soldiers for the National army.
Having acquired land from the Cherokees in the Indian Territory, they now occupy the Cooweescoowee and Delaware districts; numbered 754 in 1900; are considered the traders and business men of the North American Indians; and still keep up their totemic distinction of Turtle, Turkey, and Wolf families.
Illinois (Illinois, United States) (search for this): entry delaware-indians
United States (United States) (search for this): entry delaware-indians
South river (United States) (search for this): entry delaware-indians
Delaware Indians,
An important family of the Algonquian nation, also called Lenni-Lenapes, or men.
When the Europeans found them, they were dwelling in detached bands, under separate sachems on the Delaware River.
The Dutch traded with them as early as 1613, and held friendly relations with them; but in 1632 the Dutch settlement of Swanendael was destroyed by them.
The Swedes found them peaceful when they settled on the Delaware.
This family claim to have come from the west with the Mi ful families (Turtle, Turkey, and Wolf), and were known as Minseys, or Munsees, and Delawares proper.
The former occupied the northern part of New Jersey and a portion of Pennsylvania, and the latter inhabited lower New Jersey, the banks of the Delaware below Trenton, and the whole valley of the Schuylkill.
After the conquest of New Netherland, the English kept up trade with the Delawares, and William Penn and his followers bought large tracts of land from them.
They were parties on the India
White River (Arkansas, United States) (search for this): entry delaware-indians
Easton, Pa. (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): entry delaware-indians
Fort Greenville (Ohio, United States) (search for this): entry delaware-indians
Muskingum, O. (Ohio, United States) (search for this): entry delaware-indians
Ohio (Ohio, United States) (search for this): entry delaware-indians