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The Delaware Indians: A History
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by C. A. Weslager
Sales Rank: 474566
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List Price: $24.95
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Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 570 pages
Published by: Rutgers University Press March 1990
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0813514940
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0813514949
Book Dimensions:
9 x 6 x 1.2 inches
Weighs: 1.6 pounds
Reader Reviews
The Delaware Indians was the first book I read on the Lenape. ("Delawares" was the name given by European colonists to the Lenape people.) After reading many other books on the Lenape, Weslager's work remains the best book on the subject I've read. As striking as the exemplary research demonstrated in the book is its accessible style. Cleary Weslager took great pains to make the story of the relatively unknown Lenape people available to as wide an audience as possible. The book is a complete history of the Lenape, and its source material is oral traditions carried down by the Lenape, colonial records and writings, and 20th century records and personal narratives as well. Weslager also describes Lenape customs, ceremonies and beliefs. His description of the Lenape Big House Ceremony is fascinating. Weslager's accounts of the successive betrayals, deceptions and crimes of the European colonists and their American descendants track the disastrous trail of the Lenape from their original homeland to present day Oklahoma. Readers can easily sense that Weslager's sympathies for the Lenape people border on advocacy. Unsurprisingly, Weslager ends the book by describing the Lenape's attempt to receive compensation owed to them by the USA government for over 100 years. I highly recommend this book and others by Weslager as well.
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