Swarthmore and the Lenape (SC)

The book is a combination of a traditional Delaware Indian legend and the historical account of the tribe's struggles during the 18th and 19th centuries. The legend tells the story of a young Delaware Indian boy named Wunzh who goes on a journey to find his true purpose in life. Along the way, he encounters various challenges and learns important lessons about life, love, and the importance of community. The historical account of the Delaware tribe's troubles focuses on their interactions with European colonizers and the United States government. The book details the tribe's forced removal from their ancestral lands, the impact of disease and warfare on their population, and the challenges they faced as they attempted to maintain their cultural traditions and way of life.

This collection of Delaware legends has long been out of print. Originally published in 1905, this collection of authentic Delaware legends has long been sought both by scholars and individuals who cherish the lessons these tales impart. Stories such as "The Hunter and the Owl" teach us the importance of keeping a promise. The legend "A-le-pah-qua, The Woman with the Two Plants" demonstrates how we should not abuse the powers we are given. This book does much more than introduce the richness of the original Delaware language to an English-speaking audience: Four of these legends have been retranslated into the Delaware language by native Delaware speakers. Readers will find line-by-line translations that reveal the eventual transformation of a transliterated Delaware text into an English-language story.

Through first-person accounts, Long Journey Home presents the stories of the Lenape, also known as the Delaware Tribe. These oral histories, which span the post-Civil War era to the present, are gathered into four sections and tell of personal and tribal events as they unfold over time and place. The history of the Lenape is one of forced displacement, from their original tribal home along the eastern seaboard into Pennsylvania, continuing with a series of displacements in Ohio, Indiana, Missouri, Kansas, and the Indian Territory. For the group of Lenape interviewed for this book, home is now the area around Bartlesville, Oklahoma. The stories of their long journey have been handed down and remain part of the tribe's collective memory and bring an unforgettable immediacy to the tale of the Lenape. Above all they make clear that the history of seven generations remains very much alive.

Beautifully and authentically narrated, these stories tell among other things, of how Nanapush, the Grandfather of Beings and Men, created the earth upon the back of a great turtle; of how Mànàka'has the Rainbow Crow, flew to the twelfth heaven to receive the gift of fire from the Creator; and of how the Lenapé people came to live along the eastern seaboard of what is now known as the United States.

This book traces the Lenape heritage of the author, who has one Lenape grandparent but is not a federally enrolled tribal member. The book focuses on the life of her maternal grandfather Frank Bruner, a Lenape man who was not an officially recognized tribal member (1889-1963).

As this book explains, much of our knowledge about Lenape history and culture from the perspective of their people comes through oral histories and folktales. This collection of Lenape folklore edited by Nicky Kay Michael (Delaware Tribe) and Camilla Townsend is a combination of folktales narrated in the early twentieth century and stories recounted by Lenape elders in the 1990s. Two Lenape couples born in the mid-nineteenth century, Julius and Minne Fouts and Charles and Susain Elkhair, told a number of the stories in this book to anthropologist MR Harrington between 1908-1911.

This anthology of essays and interviews features leading Indigenous scholars, culture bearers, and artists offering important new scholarship and knowledge of Lenape culture and history that is not readily available to the general public

This is a catalog for an exhibit curated by Swarthmore professor Christopher Green. "The sky loves to hear me sing: Woodland Art in Transmotion" highlights the dynamic, migratory, and sovereign nature of Woodland Native art across time. Drawing on Anishinaabe literary theorist Gerald Vizenor's concept of 'transmotion,' or the sovereign assertion of movement through time, place, and visionary narrative, the exhibition explores the capacity of images, styles, belongings, and artistic careers to contradict essentialized notions of 'place' and identity. In the work of artists such as Norval Morrisseau (1932-2007, Ojibwe); Andrea Carlson (Ojibwe); Alan Michelson (Mohawk); and Native Art Department International, a collaborative partnership between Toronto-based artists Maria Hupfield (Anishinaabe, member of the Wasauksing First Nation) and Jason Lujan (Chiricahua Apache and Mexican), medium and form unmoor themselves from entrenched categories and roam broad sites of aesthetic and historical inquiry. These artists explore and embody visual movement(s) throughout the international meeting places of the Eastern Woodlands, challenging border regimes and colonial prerogatives while asserting the right to artistic migration in its manifold manifestations. This catalogue includes an analysis of Alan Michelson's piece, Ye Hurry Walk (2024), which addresses the Walking Purchase and the history of the Lenape.