We hope this page will help dispel some of that myth. We begin with a favorite cartoon of the man responsible for this website. He said the bear would take in after him and chase him, and after he got him close to his home, he would just shoot him. That way he wouldn't have a long ways to pack him. Some years ago, James Nairn, a Delaware Indian, County Attorney in Nowata County, Oklahoma, was cross examining an old fullblood Cherokee Indian about the position of the doors, windows and rooms in a house where a fight of serious nature had occurred.
Delaware women like to joke too, and they come up with some quick and witty responses.
At a tribal gathering a man went over to speak to a Delaware woman he knew. As she was seated, and the place was fairly noisy, he bent over to talk to her. He had a piece of ice in his mouth, and as he started to speak he almost drooled, so he quickly stood up straight. It's been a long time since I've had a man drool over me. All he does is jus' lay there an' grin.