Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore
Derivation of the Name Lenape.--The Three Sub-Tribes: the Minsi or Wolf, the Unami or Turtle, and the Unalachtgo or Turkey Tribes.--Their Totems.--The New Jersey Tribes: the Wapings, Sanhicans and Mantas.--Political Constitution of the Lenape.--Vegetable Food Resources.--Domes...
Constantine Samuel Rafinesque-Schmaltz, to whom we owe the preservation and first translation of the WALAM OLUM, was born in Galata, a suburb of Constantinople, Oct. 22d, 1783,...
10. CHAPTER IIIDerivation of the Name Lenape.--The Three Sub-Tribes the Minsi or Wolf, the Unami or Turtle, and the Unalachtgo or Turkey Tribes--Their Totems--The New Jersey Tribes the Wapings...
15. Letter XXI.Ewenikiktit. V, 60. Who are they? _Auwenik_, who are they? Z. _Gram._, 116. The term _Awanuts_ was that applied to the whites in general by the New England Indians. The Abbé Mau...
11. CHAPTER IV.The first study of the Delaware language was undertaken by the Rev. Thomas Campanius (Holm), who was chaplain to the Swedish settlements, 1642-1649. He collected a vocabulary, w...
12. CHAPTER V.A unique peculiarity of the political condition of the Lenape was that for a certain time they occupied a recognized position as non-combatants--as "women," as they were called...
13. CHAPTER VI.Cosmogonical and Culture Myths.--The Culture-hero, Michabo.--Myths from Lindstrom, Ettwein, Jasper Donkers, Zeisberger.--Native Symbolism.--The Saturnian Age.--Mohegan Cosmogony...
9. CHAPTER II.All the Algonkin nations who dwelt north of the Potomac, on the east shore of Chesapeake Bay, and in the basins of the Delaware and Hudson rivers, claimed near kinship and an id...
8. CHAPTER I.About the period 1500-1600, those related tribes whom we now know by the name of Algonkins were at the height of their prosperity. They occupied the Atlantic coast from the Sava...
7. CHAPTER VII.--THE WALAM OLUM:Phonetic System of the WALUM OLUM.--Metrical Form.-- Pictographic System--Derivation and Precise Meaning of WALUM OLUM.--The MS of the WALUM OLUM.--General Synopsis of the WALUM...
3. CHAPTER III.--THE LENAPE OR DELAWARES 33Derivation of the Name Lenape.--The Three Sub-Tribes: the Minsi or Wolf, the Unami or Turtle, and the Unalachtgo or Turkey Tribes.--Their Totems.--The New Jersey Tribes: the Wap...
4. CHAPTER IV.--THE LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE OF THE LENAPE 74§ 1. Literature of the Lenape Tongue.-- Campanius; Penn; Thomas; Zeisberger; Heckewelder; Roth; Ettwem; Grube; Dencke; Luckenbach; Henry; Vocabularies; a Native Letter. § 2. Gen...
6. CHAPTER VI.--MYTHS AND TRADITIONS OF THE LENAPE 130Cosmogonical and Culture Myths.--The Culture-hero, Michabo.--Myths from Lindstrom, Ettwein, Jasper Donkers, Zeisberger.--Native Symbolism--The Saturnian Age.--Mohegan Cosmogony...
5. CHAPTER V.--HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THE LENAPE 1091. CHAPTER I.--§ 1. THE ALGONKIN STOCK 92. CHAPTER II.--THE WAPANACHKI OR EASTERN ALGONKIN CONFEDERACY 19