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During the eighteenth century, the three tribes of the Delaware Indians underwent dramatic transformation as they migrated westward across the Allegheny mountain. Combining native oral traditions, ethnology, and colonial history Grimes tells a compelling story of the Delaware Indian nation; their emergence, triumphs, tribulations, and tragic fall.
List of contents
Acknowledgments000
Introduction: To "Enjoy the Light of Heaven"000
Chapter 1: "We Conquer'd You; We Made Women of You": The Delawares as Women and the Six Nations-Pennsylvania Chain of Friendship 000
Chapter 2: The Western Migration of the Delawares, 1730-1750000
Chapter 3: "We, the Delawares of Ohio, Do Proclaim War against the English": The Political Ascension of the Western Delawares, 1750-1756000
Chapter 4: "We Are Now Men, and Not So Easily Frightened": Western Delaware Identity during the Seven Years' War000
Chapter 5: "On Behalf of All Our Nation": The Coming Together of the Turtle, Turkey, and Wolf 000
Chapter 6: White Eyes, the Great Council, and the United Brethren: Peacemakers on the Muskingum, 1770-1776 000
Chapter 7: The Quest for Nationhood: Delawares and the American Revolution000Chapter 8: "A nation . . . Shattered, Wrecked, and Severed": The Demise of the Delaware New World Order, 1783-1795000
Conclusion: "That We Might Again Be One People"000
Notes 000
Bibliography 000
Index 000
"ç¸reak>"Map 1: Linguistic Areas of the Delawares (Lenape-Munsee Groups) 000
Map 2: Primary Indian Towns 000
Map 3: Western Delaware Indian Towns in the Ohio Territories000
Figure 1�Tishcohan, Delaware chief000
Figure 1�Lapowinsa, Delaware chief 000
Figure 2�"Chiefs of the Delaware Indians at Allegaeening"000
Figure 4�John Armstrong, "Plan of Expedition to Kittanning" 000
Figure 4�Robert Griffing, Post and King Beaver at Fort Duquesne000
Figure 5�Robert Griffing, Preparing to Meet the Enemy000
Figure 7�Robert Griffing, The Peace Maker000
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By Richard S. Grimes
