Tradition and Culture Change in the Oklahoma Delaware Big House Community: 1867-1924

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Author: Prewitt, Terry J.

Publisher: University of Tulsa Laboratory of Archaeology

Pub Date: 1981

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.  One small (approx. 1/16″) chip near foot of spine.  Appears unread.

Notes: The Oklahoma Delaware are a branch of Algonquian speakers known as Lenape, relocated time and again from the east coast, through Ohio, Indiana, Missouri, Kansas, and finally, to the “Indian Lands” of Oklahoma.  This volume is an ethnohistory of those approximately 1000 Delaware who settled in Oklahoma in 1867.  At the time of this book’s publication all Delaware of northeast Oklahoma were considered “Cherokee”, but have since regained recognition as a tribe.