This long-awaited volume is the follow-up to Dr. Kraft's first
full-length study of the Indians of Lenapehoking (present-day
New jersey, eastern Pennsylvania, southeastern New York State,
and northern Delaware) from 10,000 BC to the present day,
incorporating his earlier work along with a wealth of new
information, photographs, maps, and illustrations. Written
in non-technical language intended for the general reader, this
book corrects many myths and mistakes, and presents new evidence
concerning the origins, prehistory and lifeways of the group
commonly called Lenape or Delaware Indians. The numerous
illustrations help to visualize this 650-page text, and
bibliography encompassing hundreds of references provides
thorough documentation.
The
Lenape-Delaware Indian Heritage: 10,000 BC to AD 2000 strives to
make the reader aware of how we know about the people's
history. Using Dutch, Swedish, and English colonial
documents, Moravian Missionary accounts, information provided by
living descendants of the Lenape Indians, and new archaeological
and ethnographical discoveries, Dr. Kraft reconstructs the ways
that Paleo-Indians and later ancestors of the Lenape Indians
adjusted to various environments as hunters, fishers, and
gatherers, and how settlement patterns changed with the
introduction of horticulture. The author identifies and
describes Indian artifacts and the specific roles of the sexes,
the vision quest, arts and technology, house an settlement
patterns, religious beliefs, herbalism and curing, and death and
burial practices, as well as the adverse effects of European
contact and settlement, the fur trade, the devastating effects
of epidemic diseases and alcohol, and the final dispossession of
the Indians from their traditional homeland. The book
concludes with the discussion of land treaties, westward
migrations, information on the remnant populations of Lenape and
other Indian groups living in Jew Jersey today.
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Chapter
Titles |
- The Land and Its
People
- The Search for
Evidence
- Paleo-Indian
Pathfinders
- Archaic Hunters,
Fishers, and Gatherers
- Early and Middle
Woodland Periods
- The Late Woodland
Period, the Environment and Its People
- The Late Woodland
Period, Food Procurement and Processing
- Economy and Technology
- Spiritual Beliefs and Practices, Late Woodland and Early Historic Times
- Early European
Contacts with the Indians
- European Colonization:
Indian Concessions
- Westward Migrations
- Settled, Uprooted,
Resettled Again, and Again
- Final Settlements
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