TAILIEUCHUNG - Encyclopedia of World CulturesVolume I - NORTH AMERICA - D

Tự điển chuyên ngành nông nghiệp thế giới Vol1 - Bắc Mỹ - Vần D | 84 Delaware Delaware ETHNONYMS Lenape Munsee River Indians Turkey Tribe Unami Orientation Identification. By the end of the eighteenth century the name Delaware had become associated with three groups of native people who originally occupied the valley of the Delaware River. The first Europeans called the various people living along the Delaware River by the collective term River Indians. Years later when the river was named the Delaware after Sir Thomas West Lord de la Warr the first governor of the Virginia colony the River Indians became known by the same name. The few remaining speakers of the Delaware language and the descendants of these people who still strongly identify themselves as Delaware live in two communities in Oklahoma. Like their ancestors they continue to maintain a dispersed residential pattern but now the areas between individual households are occupied by other Americans. The concentrations of modem Delaware can be found in the northeast of Oklahoma in the Bartlesville area and in the western part of the state around Anadarko. Although these contemporary Delaware appear quite similar to the other Americans around them many old cultural traits are embedded in their life-styles. Location. In aboriginal times the three cultures Lenape Munsee Jerseys now popularly known as Delaware occupied separate parts of the river valley. The Lenape the best known of these groups are the focus of this description. The Lenape inhabited the area along the west side of the lower Delaware River from old Duck Creek in northern Delaware up to Tohiccon Creek which flows south of and parallel to the Lehigh River. Lenape territory ran inland as far as the sources of these feeder streams and all of those in between. Today the remnants of the Lenape traditionalists including eight people who still speak the language live in Oklahoma. The people who lived on the east side of the lower Delaware River occupying all of southern New Jersey south of the Raritan River are .

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