Long Journey Home
Subtitle: Oral Histories of Contemporary Delaware Indians
Contributors: James W. Brown (Editor); Rita T. Kohn (Editor)
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: January 7, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780253349682
Subjects: American history; American studies; Indigenous peoples; History; History - General History; History: World; North America; Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies - Tribes; Native American; Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies; Biography; Delaware Indians; Portraits
Description: Through first-person accounts, this book presents the stories of the Lenape, also known as the Delaware Tribe. These oral histories, which span the post-Civil War era to the present, are gathered into four sections and tell of personal and tribal events as they unfold over time and place. The history of the Lenape is one of forced displacement, from their original tribal home along the eastern seaboard into Pennsylvania, continuing with a series of displacements in Ohio, Indiana, Missouri, Kansas, and the Indian Territory. For the group of Lenape interviewed for this book, home is now the area around Bartlesville, Oklahoma. The stories of their long journey have been handed down and remain part of the tribe's collective memory and bring an unforgettable immediacy to the tale of the Lenape. Above all they make clear that the history of seven generations remains very much alive.