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DELAWARE INDIANS

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 951 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DELAWARE See also:INDIANS , the See also:English name for the Leni Lenape, a tribe of See also:North See also:American Indians of Algonquian stock. When first discovered by the whites the tribe was settled on the See also:banks of the Delaware See also:river. The See also:French called them Loups (wolves) from their See also:chief totemic See also:division. See also:Early in the 17th See also:century the Dutch began trading with them. Subsequently See also:William See also:Penn bought large tracts of See also:land from them, and See also:war followed, the Delawares alleging they had been defrauded; but, with the assistance of the Six Nations, the whites forced them back See also:west of the Alleghenies. In 1789 they were placed on a See also:reservation in See also:Ohio and subsequently in 1818 were moved to See also:Missouri. Various removals followed, until in 1866 they accepted lands in the Indianterritory (See also:Oklahoma) and gave up the tribal relation. They have remained there and now number some 1700.

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