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Source: January 1985 Volume 23 Number 1, Pages 9–12

A Bibliography of Material, on the Lenape

Marshall Joseph Becker

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Becker, Marshall Joseph

1976 The Okehocking: A Remnant Band of Delaware Indians in Chester County, Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania Archaeologist 46:25-65.

1980a Lenape Archaeology: Archaeological and Ethnohistoric Considerations in Light of Recent Excavations. Pennsylvania Archaeologist 50(4):19-50.

1980b Wampum: The Development of an Early American Currency. Archaeological Society of New Jersey Bulletin 56:1-11.

1982a Pre-Penn Settlements of the Delaware Valley. Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine 52(5):227-234.

1982b Search for the Lenape Indians. Archaeology 55 (5):10-19.

1985 The Boundary between the Lenape and Munsee: Indications that the Forks of Delaware was a buffer zone during the early Historic Period, Man in the Northeast 26 (Fall): 1 - 20.

In Press A - The Lenape Bands Prior to 1740 A.D.: The Identification of Boundaries and Processes of Culture Change Leading to the Formation of the "Delaware." Papers from the Lenape Indian Symposium, Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey, in press.

In Press B - The Indians of Southern New Jersey. New Jersey History.

MS. Hannah Freeman or "Indian Hannah: (17507-1802): The Last Identified Lenape Resident in Chester County, Pennsylvania. Anthropology Section, West Chester University. MS on file,

Brinton and Albert Seqaqkind Anthony, eds.

1888 A Lenape-English Dictionary. Philadelphia: Historical Society of Pennsylvania. (Reissued by AMS Press, Inc., New York.)

Cross, Dorothy

1941 Archaeology of New Jersey I, Trenton: Archaeological Society of New Jersey and New Jersey State Museum.

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de Valinger, Leon, Jr.

1941 Indian Land Sales in Delaware. Wilmington: Archaeological Society of Delaware (Contains addendum, pp. 14-21: C. A. Weslager, A Discussion of the family Hunting Territory Question in Delaware.)

De Vries, David Pietersz

1857 "Voyages from Holland to America, A.D. 1632 to 1644." Trans. Henry C. Murphy, Collections of the New-York Historical Society, second series, vol. 3, pp. 1-136. (English version of Korto Historiaelende Journeels Aentcyckeninge , 's-Gravenhage, 1655.)

Goddard, Ives

1971 "The Ethnohistorical Implications of Early Delaware Linguistics Materials." Man in the Northeast 1:14-26.

1975 "Delaware Kinship Terminology (with Comparative Notes)." Studies in Linguistics 23:59-56.

Harrington, Mark R.

1908 "Vestiges of Material Culture Among the Canadian Delawares." American Anthropologist, n.s., 10:408-418.

1910 "Some Customs of the Delaware Indians." Museum Journal, vol. 1,no. 3, pp. 52-60, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania.

1913 "A Preliminary Sketch of Lenape Culture." American Anthropologist, n.s., 15:208-235.

1938 Dickon Among the Indians. Chicago, Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company. (Reprinted 1963 as The Indians of New Jersey: Dickon Among the Lenapes. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press.

Heckewelder, John.

1819 An Account of the History, Manners, and Customs, of the Indian Nations Who Once Inhabited Pennsylvania and the Neighbouring States. Transactions of the Historical and Literary Committee of the American Philosophical Society 1. Philadelphia. (Rev. ed. 1876, ed. William C. Reichel. Memoirs of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania 12. Philadelphia.)

Herman, Mary W.

1950. "A Reconstruction of Aboriginal Delaware Culture from Contemporary Sources." Kroeber Anthropology Society Papers 1:45-77. Berkeley.

Holm, Thomas Campanius.

1854 "A Short Description of the Province of New Sweden. Now called by the English Pennsylvania in America [1702]." Trans. Peter S.Du Ponceau. Memoirs of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania 3. part 1, pp. 1-166.

Horsford, Eben Norton, ed.

1887 Zeisberger's Indian Dictionary. Cambridge: John Wilson and Son, University Press.

Hunter, William A.

1954. "John Hays' Diary and Journal of 1760." Pennsylvania Archaeologist 24, no. 2, pp. 65-83. "

1960 Forts on the Pennsylvania Frontier. 1753-1758. Harrisburg: The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.

Johnson, Amandus

1911 The Swedish Settlements on the Delaware: their History and Relation to the Indians, Dutch and English 1638-1661. 2 vols. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania. (Reprinted 1909. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co.)

Kent, Barry

1984 Susquehanna's Indians. Anthropological Series, No. 6. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg.

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Kinietz, Vernon

1946 Delaware Culture Chronology. Indiana Historical Society Pre-history Research Series 5, no. 1, Indianapolis (Reprinted by AMS Press,Inc.)

Lindestrom, Peter

1925 Geographia Americae with an Account of the Delaware Indians. Ed. and trans. Amandus Johnson, Philadelphia: The Swedish Colonial Society.

MacLeod, William Christie

1922 "The Family Hunting Territory and Lenape Political Organization." American Anthropologist 24:449-463.

Mahr, August C.

1955 "Eighteenth Century Terminology of Delaware Indian Cultivation and Use of Maize: a Semantic Analysis." Ethnohistory 2:209-40.

Miller, Jay

1975 "Delaware Alternative Classifications." Anthropological Linguistics, 17, no. 9, pp. 434-444.

1973 Kwuiakan: The Delaware Side of Their Movement West. Pennsylvania Archaeologist 45(4): 45-4.6.

Myers, Albert Cook, ed.

1912. Narratives of Early Pennsylvania, West New Jersey and Delaware 1650-1707. New York: Charles Scribners Sons. (Contains references to Delaware Indians by David Pietersz. DeVries, Thomas Yong, Johan Printz, Johan Rising, William Penn, Gabriel Thomas, Francis Daniel Pastorius, and other seventeenth century observers.)

1937 William Penn; His Own Account of the Lenni Lenape or Delaware Indians, 1683. Moylan, Pa.: privately printed. (Reprinted 1977, Middle Atlantic Press, Wallingford, Penna.)

Nelson, William

1894 The Indians of New Jersey, Their Origin and Development. Manners and Customs, Language, Religion and Government. Paterson: The Press. (Includes Delaware Indian word list,'"The Salem Interpreter"').

Newcomb, William W., Jr.

1956. The Culture and Acculturation of the Delaware Indians. Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan. Anthropological Papers 10. Ann Arbor.

[Pennsylvania]. 1838-1883. Minutes of the Provincial Council of Pennsylvania from the Organization to the Termination of the Proprietary Government. 16 vols. Vols. 11-l6 titled Minutes of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania. Ed. Samuel Hazard. Harrisburg and Philadelphia. (Vols. 1-5 reprinted 1852 with different pagination.)

Pennsylvania Archives. 1852-1949. Ed. Samuel Hazard et al. 9 series, 138 vols. Philadelphia and Harrisburg.

Prince, J. Dyneley.

1900. "Notes on the Modern Minsi-Delaware Dialect." American Journal of Philology 21:295-502.

Schrabisch, Max

1930. Archaeology of Delaware River Valley. Publications of the Pennsylvania Historical Commission 1. Harrisburg.

Speck, Frank G.

1931. A Study of the Delaware Indian Big House Ceremony. Publications of the Pennsylvania Historical Commission 2, Harrisburg.

1937 Oklahoma Delaware Ceremonies. Feasts and Dances. Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society 7. Philadelphia.

1945 The Celestial Bear Comes Down to Earth. Scientific Publications 7. Reading Pa.: Reading Public Museum and Art Gallery. (in collaboration with Jesse Moses)

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Stewart, Frank H.

1952 Indians of Southern New Jersey. Publications of the Gloucester County Historical Society 5. Woodbury, N.J.

Trowbridge, Charles C.

[c. 1823] "Account of Some of the Traditions, Manners and Customs of the Lenee Lenaupaa or Delaware Indians." In C. A. Weslager, The Delaware Indians, A History.

Voegelin, Charles F.

1940 "The Lenape and Munsee Dialects of Delaware, An Algonquian Language." Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science 49:54-5".

Wallace, Anthony F. C.

1947 King of the Delawares: Teedyuscung, 1700-l763. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Wallace, Paul A. W.

1965 Indian Paths of Pennsylvania. Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.

Weslager, C. A.

1961 Dutch Explorers, Traders and Settlers in the Delaware Valley, 1609-1664. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

1972 The Delaware Indians, A History. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.

1978a The Delaware Indian Westward Migration. With the Text of Two Manuscripts (1821-22) Responding to General Lewis Cass's Inquiries About Lenape Culture and Language. Wallingford, Pa.: Middle Atlantic Press.

1978b The Delawares; A Critical Bibliography. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press. Newberry Library Center Bibliographical series.

Wilson, Paul C.

1965 A Forgotten Mission to the Indians (William Smalley's Adventures among the Delaware- Indians of Ohio in 1792.) Paul C. Wilson, Jr.: Galveston, Texas.