The Delaware Indians by Richard C Adams

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the Great Spirit, and thus improve yourself in each sphere you pass through until you have finally reached the Happy Hunting Ground) and have in some manner merited a reward yourself." There are now living in the Cherokee Nation about 1,150 Delaware Indians. Perhaps twothirds of them can read and write. About 2CX) are full bloods, one-half of whom adhere to the old faith, while about one-third of the tribe profess the Christian faith ; which to me is a most remarkable thing, considering the massacre of the Christian Indians in Gnadenhutten, Pa., and Gnadenhutten, Ohio, and the further persecution of them after that, at the hands of the race who taught them that faith. At some future time I may attempt to publish the twelve opening orations, and as many of the others as I can obtain.
THANKSGIVING DANCE. Traditions of our people as far back as the memories of our tribe are that we always bad a Thanksgiving Dance. That many, many generations ago we came from a far-off country in the northwest; came across a land of ice and snow, until we reached the Great Fish River, or Mississippi River, where we found many people living in that valley who fiercely opposed our progress, but, after a long war, we completely overcame them, and proceeded on our journey until we finally settled in that country watered by the Susquehanna and the Delaware Rivers, our territory extending from the mountains to the tide water. Here all the Algonquin Tribes lived near them, and they became powerful and rich, so much so that they forgot to give thanks to the Great Spirit. About that time there was a great famine or drouth. Following this great earthquakes came, rivers went dry, streams and springs started up in places where water had scarcely been seen before. Mountains came and disappeared and great fear people. prevailed among the
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