History for ready reference, Volume 1, A-ElbaLarned, J. N. (Josephus Nelson)
History
History for ready reference, Volume 1, A-Elba
Larned, J. N. (Josephus Nelson)
History -- Dictionaries
_J. W. Powell, Seventh Annual Report, Bureau of Ethnology,
p, 71._
AMERICAN ABORIGINES:
Creek Confederacy, Creek Wars.
See below: MUSKHOGEAN FAMILY;
also UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A. D. 1813-1814 (AUGUST-APRIL);
and FLORIDA: A. D. 1816-1818.
AMERICAN ABORIGINES:
Crees.
See above: ALGONQUIAN FAMILY.
AMERICAN ABORIGINES:
Croatans,
See AMERICA: A. D. 1587-1590.
AMERICAN ABORIGINES:
Crows (Upsarokas, or Absarokas).
See below: SIOUAN FAMILY.
AMERICAN ABORIGINES:
Cuatos.
See below: PAMPAS TRIBES.
AMERICAN ABORIGINES:
Cunimaré.
See below: GUCK OR COCO GROUP.
AMERICAN ABORIGINES:
Cuyriri or Kiriri.
See below: GUCK on Coco GROUP.
AMERICAN ABORIGINES:
Dakotas, or Dacotahs, or Dahcotas.
See below: SIOUAN FAMILY and PAWNEE (CADDOAN) FAMILY.
AMERICAN ABORIGINES:
Delawares, or Lenape.
"The proper name of the Delaware Indians was and is Lenapé (a
as in father, é as a in mate). ... The Lenape were divided
into three sub-tribes:
1. The Minsi, Monseys, Montheys, Munsees, or Minisinks.
2. The Unami or Wonameys.
3. The Unalachtigo.
No explanation of these designations will be
found in Heckewelder or the older writers. From
investigations among living Delawares, carried out at my
request by Mr. Horatio Hale, it is evident that they are
wholly geographical, and refer to the location of these
sub-tribes on the Delaware river. ... The Minsi lived in the
mountainous region at the head waters of the Delaware, above
the Forks or junction of the Lehigh river. ... The Unamis'
territory on the right bank of the Delaware river extended
from the Lehigh Valley southward. It was with them and their
southern neighbors, the Unalachtigos, that Penn dealt for the
land ceded to him in the Indian deed of 1682. The Minsis did
not take part in the transaction, and it was not until 1737
that the Colonial authorities treated directly with the latter
for the cession of their territory. The Unalachtigo or Turkey
totem had its principal seat on the affluents of the Delawares
near where Wilmington now stands."
_D. G. Brinton, The Lenape and Their Legends,
chapter 3._
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