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The Council of Lenape Elders works to sustain traditional dances, culture, and the tribal language, and works with the Delaware Gourd Society. The tribe maintains a Delaware Center, on an 80-acre (320,000 m 2) parcel of land in Bartlesville. [5] Delaware artists are known for their wood carving and ribbon work skills.
The Delaware Indians: A History. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1972. ISBN 0-8135-0702-2. Weslager, C.A. The Delaware Indian Westward Migration: With the Texts of Two Manuscripts, 1821–22, Responding to General Lewis Cass's Inquiries about Lenape Culture and Language. Middle Atlantic Press, 1978. ISBN 978-0-912608-06-8. Weslager ...
Up until the mid-twentieth century and despite ample historical evidence that Delaware Indians used it for shelter, the National Speleological Society maintained that Delaware was the only state in the union lacking a cave. [2] In 1958, a local resident, George Jackson, added this cave to the national cave files. [3]
Delaware Nation had 2,255 enrolled citizens in the 2024 fiscal year. [3] As of March 16, 2019, Delaware Nation membership was changed from minimum blood quantum of 1/8 blood to Lineal Descendancy by vote during a Secretarial Election. [4] The Delaware Nation's tribal complex is located two miles (3 km) north of Anadarko, Oklahoma on
The American Nations; or, Outlines of a National History; of the Ancient and Modern Nations of North and South America. Philadelphia. Voegelin, Charles F., ed. (1954). Walam Olum; or, Red Score, the Migration Legend of the Lenni Lenape or Delaware Indians.
A book called "History of the Delaware Indians." This might refer to Richard C. Adams, A Brief History of the Delaware Indians, US Congress and Senate, 59th Congress, 1st Session, Senate Document Number 501, Serial Number 4916, Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1906.
In 1806 an assembly was held in Kikthawenund's village, during which he was elevated to chief of the Delaware Tribe. This elevation came upon the death of the previous chief, Tetepachsit, in March of that year. According to Kikthawenund's descendants, he did not want this new position, but he accepted it nonetheless. [1]
Tamanend ("the Affable"; [3] c. 1625 – c. 1701), historically also known as Taminent, [4] Tammany, Saint Tammany or King Tammany, [5] was the Chief of Chiefs and Chief of the Turtle Clan [6] of the Lenni-Lenape nation in the Delaware Valley signing the founding [7] [8] peace treaty with William Penn.