{"id":851,"date":"2010-08-14T21:01:06","date_gmt":"2010-08-14T21:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smithrebellion1765.com\/?page_id=851"},"modified":"2010-08-19T05:10:39","modified_gmt":"2010-08-19T05:10:39","slug":"the-delaware-indians-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/smithrebellion1765.com\/?page_id=851","title":{"rendered":"The Delaware Indians"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Delaware Indian Warrior - by Artist Randy Steele - Source: http:\/\/ fineart america .com \/featured \/french -and -indian -war -delaware -indian -warrior -randy -steele. html<\/p><\/div>\n

The Delaware Indians (Lenni Lenape) were named by the Europeans because of their close proximity to the Delaware river which was named after Lord De La Warr, Governor of Jamestown.\u00a0 The Delaware language belonged to the Algonquian family of Indian dialects.\u00a0 Early tribes were organized as language groups rather than individual tribes.\u00a0 In Lenni Lanape society families followed the woman\u2019s line of descent.<\/p>\n

The Delaware\u2019s were among the first Native Americans to come in contact with Europeans beginning in the early 1600s with the fur trade.\u00a0 In their early history they were often the peacemakers in disputes between other rival tribes and were seen as a very peaceful people even in the Cumberland Valley area until after the French and Indian War began to change white settler\u2019s perceptions of all Indians.\u00a0 Francis Parkman author of The Conspiracy of Pontiac<\/em> notes that the Delaware Indians believed that land belonged to everyone and therefore could not be sold.\u00a0 When selling land treaties with white settlers the Indians\u00a0granted land usage not ownership.\u00a0 It was conflict over land ownership that ultimately triggered a brutal battle for survival on the American frontier that would continue unabated into the beginning of the 20th Century.<\/span><\/p>\n

As more and more British Colonists migrated to America their movement forced the Delaware Indians to withdraw westward across the Appalachian Mountains into Ohio country.\u00a0 Here they came into contact with French traders who provided them with European goods including guns and alcohol in exchange for furs.\u00a0 The French and Indian War disrupted the alliance particularly after the Treaty of Paris in 1763 which caused the French to abandon their territories in North America.<\/span><\/p>\n

Because of their distrust of British and American colonist many of the Delaware\u2019s joined Pontiac\u2019s War and were part of the siege at Fort Pitt in 1763 to 1764.\u00a0 Pontiac\u2019s War came to the Cumberland Valley when three Delaware Indians murdered and scalped school master Enoch Brown and ten school children on July 26, 1764 near present day Greencastle, Pennsylvania.\u00a0 This event was widely considered to be the main reason Justice William Smith was so concerned about the safety of the Conococheague settlement as a result of trade with the Indians.<\/span><\/p>\n

During the American Revolution the frontier war for survival continued as if no war for independence was taking place.\u00a0 There were many instances of brutality on both sides.\u00a0 One such incident was the 1782 Gnadenhutten Massacre, where Pennsylvania militia men killed over one hundred peaceful Christian Delaware Indians living in a Moravian mission.\u00a0 They were killed mainly because they were Indians although a flimsy defense of the Pennsylvania militia stated it was believe they had participated in recent frontier raids.<\/span><\/p>\n

Following America\u2019s becoming an independent nation the Delaware Indians continued to resist a renewed flood of settlers into Ohio.\u00a0 In 1794 General Anthony Wayne defeated the Delaware tribe at the Battle of Fallen Timbers in Ohio.\u00a0 After this battle they surrendered most of their Ohio lands and in 1795 signed the first treaty with the new American nation when they signed the treaty of Greenville.\u00a0 By 1829 the United States government forced the Delaware tribe to move west across the Mississippi river into modern day Oklahoma where most of the tribe resides today.
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The Conspiracy of Pontiac<\/em>.\u00a0 Parkman, Francis.\u00a0 Little Brown and Co.\u00a0 Boston, Mass.\u00a0 1898<\/span><\/p>\n

Our Savage Neighbors:\u00a0 How the Indian War Transformed Early America<\/em>.\u00a0 Silver, Peter.\u00a0 W.W. Norton & Co.\u00a0 New York, NY.\u00a0 2008<\/span><\/p>\n

American Leviathan:\u00a0 Empire, Nation, and Revolutionary Frontier<\/em>.\u00a0 Griffin, Patrick.\u00a0 Hill and Wang A division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux.\u00a0 New York, NY.\u00a0 2007<\/span><\/p>\n

The Delaware Tribe – Wikipeida A free Encyclopedia <\/span>http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Delaware_Indians<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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