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Materials about Delaware Indians

Books and Pamphlets:

I 497 Z47iTitle: Zeisberger's Indian dictionary, English, German, Iroquois--the Onondaga, and Algonquin--the Delaware; printed from the original manuscript in Harvard college library.
Author: Zeisberger, David, 1721-1808.
Published: Cambridge [Mass.] : J. Wilson and son, 1887.

I 970.3 W752fTitle: A forgotten mission to the Indians, William Smalley's adventures among the Delaware Indians of Ohio in 1792.
Author: Wilson, Paul C., jr.
Published: Galveston, Texas, 1965.

Ip 970.1 no. 5Title: Letter to the chiefs and warriors, representatives of the Wyandote, Delaware, Chawanoes, Ottawas, Chippewas, Pottawatomies, Miamis, Eel river, Weeas, Kickapoos, Piankashaws, and Koskaskias.
Author: Washington, George, 1732-1799.
Published: n.p., n.d.

IpQ  970.1 no. 1Title: A treaty of peace between the United States of America and the tribes of Indians called the Wyandots, Delawares, Shawnes, Ottawas, Chippewas, Pottawatomies, Miamis, Eel river, Weeas, and Kickapoos.
Author: U.S.--Treaties, etc. 1780-1797 (Washington).
Published: n.p., n.d.

I 923 S634sTitle: History of Frances Slocum, the captive.  A civilized heredity vs. a savage, and later barbarous, environment.
Author: Slocum, Charles Elihu, 1841-1915.
Published: Defiance, O. : The author, 1908.

I 970.3 R658tTitle: Trail of the white wolf; or, The doom of the Delawares; a thrilling story of early colonial days.
Author: Robinson, Charles Asbury.
Published: Greenfield, Ind., c1903.

Ip 970.3 no.9Title: Delaware villages on White River.
Author: Storer Historical Society.
Published: [n.p., n.d.].

Ip 970.3 no. 10Title: The trek of the Delaware Indians.
Author: Muncie, Ind. Central High School. Sesquicentennial Historical Society.
Published: [Muncie, Ind.] : Muncie Central Sesquicentennial Historical Society, [1966?].

Ip 970.3 no. 5Title: The Walam Olum; a legend of the Lenape Indians.
Author: Leitner, Leander.
Published: Brooklyn, N.Y. : Skylines press, [1941?].

I 572.97 H873pTitle: Physical anthropology of the Lenape or Delawares, and of the eastern Indians in general.
Author: Hrdlicka, Ales, 1869-.
Published: Washington : Govt. print. off., 1916.

I 284.6 G514mTitle: The Moravian Indian mission on White River; diaries and letters, May 5, 1799 to Nov. 12, 1806.
Author: Gipson, Lawrence Henry, 1880-1971.
Published: Indianapolis : Indiana historical bureau, 1938.

Ip 970.1 no. 34Title: The Indians of Delaware County.
Author: Greene, Richard A., 1903-.
Published: [Fort Wayne, Ind.], 1954.

Ip 970.3 no. 1Title: Walam Olum of the Delawares.
Author: Dunn, Jacob Piatt.
Published: 1908.

Ip 970.6 no. 1Title: Indian witches burned to death; how the brother of Tecumseth (!), in role of prophet led pagan Delawares to kill friends of the whites ... .
Author: Dunn, Jacob Piatt.
Published: Indpls. News, Jan. 4, 1908.

I 970.3 D263LTitle: The Lenni Lenape.
Author: Davis, Raymond.
Published: Orestes, Ind., [n.d.].

I 220.5 L941Title: Forty-six select Scripture narratives from the Old Testament. Embellished with engravings, for the use of Indian youth. Translated into Delaware Indian, by A. Luckenbach ...
Author: Bible. O.T. Deleware. Selections, 1838.
Published: New York : D. Fanshaw, 1838.

I 970.3 A216dTitle: A Delaware Indian legend and the story of their troubles.
Author: Adams, Richard Calmit.
Published: Washington, D.C., 1899.

Ip 398.2 no. 2Title: Adoption of Mew-seo-qua, Tecumseh's father, and the philosophy of the Delaware Indians.
Author: Adams, Richard Calmit.
Published: [Washington : Crane, c1917].

I 970.3 W513dTitle: The Delaware Indians; a history.
Author: Weslager, C. A. (Clinton Alfred), 1909-.
Published: New Brunswick, N.J., Rutgers University Press [1972].

I 923 S634dTitle: Maconsquah : Small Bear Woman.
Author: Dodge, Mary.
Published: Detroit, Mich. (67 E. Kirby, Detroit 48202) : Children's Museum Friends, c1986.

I 970.3 I385wTitle: Walam Olum, or, Red score : migration legend of the Lenni Lenape or Delaware Indians ; a new translation, interpreted by linguistic, historical, archaeological, ethnological, and physical anthropological studies.
Uniform title: Walam Olum.
Published: Indianapolis : Indiana Historical Society, 1954.

I 970.3 W513dwTitle: The Delaware Indian westward migration : with texts of two manuscripts, 1821-22, responding to General Lewis Cass's inquiries about Lenape culture and language.
Author: Weslager, C. A. (Clinton Alfred), 1909-.
Published: Wallingford, Pa. : Middle Atlantic Press, c1978.

I 16.9704 W511dTitle: The Delawares : a critical bibliography.
Author: Weslager, C. A. (Clinton Alfred), 1909-.
Published: Bloomington : Published for the Newberry Library [by] Indiana University Press, c1978.

I 970.4 W513dbTitle: Delaware's buried past; a story of archaeological adventure.
Author: Weslager, C. A. (Clinton Alfred), 1909-.
Published: New Brunswick, N.J., Rutgers University Press, [c1968].

IR 970 H236Title: Handbook of North American Indians.
Published: Washington : Smithsonian Institution : for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1978-.

IR[q] 912.73 P972aTitle: Atlas of American Indian affairs.
Author: Prucha, Francis Paul.
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c1990.

IR[q]  977 A881Title: Atlas of Great Lakes Indian history.
Edited by Helen Hornbeck Tanner ... [et al.].
Published: Norman : Published for the Newberry Library by the University of Oklahoma Press, c1987. 

Microfilm:

I 970.5 N538cTitle: The culture and acculturation of the Delaware Indians [microform].
Author: Newcomb, William W. (William Wilmon), 1921-.
Published: 1953.

I 970.4 F353wTitle: The White River Indiana Delawares microform : an ethnohistoric synthesis, 1795-1867.
Author: Ferguson, Roger James, 1932-.
Published: 1972. 

Manuscripts Section:

L443Title: [Letters], 1815-1821.
Author: United States. Office of Indian Affairs.

Compiled by Barney Thompson, Senior Subject Specialist, Indiana Division, Indiana State Library

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