Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-08-29

lutl pun lutillhclfN6 Nhitbi til1 piolbt-
ton OF the Iroquois and confine them
selves to peaceful hunting and fishing,
renouncing the arts of war. In other
words the Delawares 'were made
women Of, and in that condition Will
liam Penn found them IN 1852 and the
Dutch and Swedes before him.
This was a humiliating position for
such a high spirited race, and SO
in 17i0-50 many Delawares moved up
the Susquehanna, over the Alleghanies
and down to Monongahela to Wheeling,
w. v. Presently they obtained from
their ancient allies and ''uncles, the
Wyandots, grant OF land on the Mus
Singum river, in Ohio, and went there,
but the main body, being gradually
driven from New Jersey, Connecticut
and New York into Pennsylvania, still
remained there for time. They joined
with the French against the British
and frontier whites in the French and
| Indian war, and were represented with
| tho French at Braddock's defeat in
| 1875. In 1768 still more Of them re-
moved beyond the Alleghanies. During
| the Revolution in 177S they made
treaty with the Colonies and agreed to
assist the American cause in con
Hideration of the promise that great
confederation OF friendly Indians should
| be formed, the Delawares at its head,
with representation in Congress- I'm
| fortunately some Of the chiefs took
sides with the British, and 80 the
United States was freed Of its promise
TO give them representation in Con-
| gress.
BY treaties in 1885 and 1889 lands
We're conveyed to the Dolawares in
Ohio between the Miami, Cuyahoga,
Upper Sandusky and Muskingum
rivers, the race then being reduced to
about 500 souls Soon they increased
largely in numbers and arose again to
Importance. Forming an alliance with
the Shawnees settled on the Scioto
river, they resisted for many years the
progress Of the whites. When not en-
gagged in war they frequently iourneyed
south ON hunting expeditions as far as
the Cherokees in Tennessee, Alabama
and Georgia. The Cherokees, to avenge
themselves, made war upon them, but
the fighting always resulted in favor
of the Delawares, until finally the
Cherokees were pleased to grant them
free access to their hunting grounds.
The decisive victory of Gen. Anthony
Wayne over the Delawares and their
allies in 1894 at length brought them
to subsection.
CONTINUED MIGRATIoNs
Under the treaty Of Greenville,
which followed in 1895, the greater
part of the Delaware lands among
the Wyandots were relinquished to the
government, whereupon the Delawares
obtained from the Miamis tract
of land on the White river of Wa
bash, in Indiana, tapping over into
Illinois, and about LOCO Of them re-
moved thither, their title being after
wards acknowledged by William Henry
Harrison in the treaty of Vincennes,
Ind, in 1901 The Delaware braves
Joined the Shawnees in 1911 in the
battle of Tippecanoe, but during the
war with Great Britain in 1812-15 they
kept quiet on their reservation. There
they were joined in 1915 by a strag-
Cling band of their own blood, who
had settled near the town of Cape
Gerardeau, in Missouri, under permits
sion given for the Spanish government
by Baron de Carondolet in 1893, whence
they had TO depart.
Most of them moved from the White
and Wabash rivers in Indiana and Hi
nois in 1919 in pursuance of the treaty
of 1918, by which they coed their
lands to the government for none
tary consideration, and went to Mis-
souri,, near the persent site of Spring
field, at the James fork of the White
river. A little band still remained on
the SanduslSy, but these latter, under
the treaty of 1929, relinquished their
holdings there and joined their nation
in Missouri.
By another treaty in 1920 all the
Delawares sold their lands in Missouri
and most Of agreed to accept a reser-
walton in Kansas, at the junction Of
the Kansas and Missouri rivers, not
far from the present site of Leaven-
worth. A small fragment Of the tribe
objected to the new country on the
comical ground that the Kansas and
Missouri rivers coming together on the
new lands looked to much like white
mans trousers, which they despised.
The bulk of the nation, however, now
numbering about 1000, emigrated
peacefully to Kansas. The recalcitrant
fragment who objected to the pants
leg reservation subsequently went
down into Indian Territory and settled
with the Kiowas, Comanches and
Wichitas on an indifferent reservation
near Fort Sill. In this they made a
grave mistake, as their descendants
have recently found to their regret and
pecuniary loss.
In 1854 the Delawares parted with
some of their surplus land in Kansas,
, but retained their home reserve, and
exchanged parcel of miscellaneous
annuities for S14s, 900 in cash. Six years
later, in 1860, by another treaty, they
sold more surplus land to the Leaven-
worth, Pawnee & Western Railroad
Union Pacific) and agreed to allot
,, their reserve lands in severalty. Sub
sequently, when the railroad company
: found itself unable to fully consum-
mate the purchase, although about
one-half the price, or 1920, 900, had
, been paid, the government agreed by
treaty in 1866 to make good the trans
, action and assume the debt, at the
same time agreeing to sell their Other
, lands and procure for the tribe new
homes in the Cherokee Nation in In,
dian Territory. By the language o.
this treaty the Delawares were to be
come incorporated with and remain {
part of the Cherokee nation, on equa
terms in every respect with the native
Cherokees.
, coLoNIzEp' WITH cHERoKEEs.
( Accordingly, tho Delawares, seeing
, themselves destined by fate once more
, to "moye on" left Kansas in 1867 anc
/ took up their abode among the Chero
: KEGS upon lands provided for them
] They paid the Cherokees, or rather the
! government paid for them, 81 per acrl
1 for the land taken, besides S126, 600 al
' their portion of existing Cherokee
D funds in the treasury. In the same yea
| oxuo do f.n fxtx With