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Delaware State News

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Kent dig reveals Indians' past
Culture adapted to European ways

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By J.L. MILLER
Dover Bureau reporter
09/05/2000


The archaeological excavation of an 18th-century Kent County farm site has opened
a new window on the history of Delaware's original inhabitants.

The excavation, detailed in a new report written for the state
Department of Transportation, shows how local Indians adapted to
European ways while maintaining some of their ancestral traditions.

The link between Indian and European ways might have gone undetected
were it not for seven pieces of broken glass at a site called Bloomsbury.

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Indians clash over heritage
Nanticoke chief at odds with Lenape, state over research

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By J.L. MILLER
Dover Bureau reporter
06/26/2001


The state Department of Transportation, bowing to protests from
Nanticoke Indian Chief Kenneth S. Clark, has blocked publication of
an archaeological report that challenges the Nanticokes' claim as the
sole surviving remnant of Delaware's original inhabitants.

The archaeological study concludes that some of the original Indian inhabitants
of the Cheswold area in northeastern Kent County adapted to the
encroaching European culture, and that their descendants populate the area to this day.

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Lenape roots left in doubt by review

By J.L. MILLER
Dover Bureau reporter
02/26/2002

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A DelDOT archaeological study lacks sufficient evidence to prove the
American Indian ancestry of the Cheswold-area people who
identify themselves as Lenape Indians, according to a review by the National Park Service.

State Department of Transportation officials said Monday the report
will be revised, so it focuses on the excavation of the site itself -
not on the sensitive topic of the ancestry of today's Nanticoke and Lenape peoples.

The report on the archaeological excavation of the Bloomsbury site near
Cheswold was disputed by the Nanticoke Indian Association,
which saw it as a challenge to its claim as the sole remnant of Delaware's original inhabitants.

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Lenape meeting a 'homecoming'

By J.L. MILLER
Dover Bureau reporter
04/26/2002

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A Saturday symposium on the Lenape Indian people will be far more than a
dry academic exercise, its organizers say: It will be the fulfillment of a prophecy.

The meeting at Delaware Technical & Community College's Terry Campus in Dover
is expected to draw Lenape people from as far as Canada and Oklahoma.

"It's a homecoming," said Nena D. Todd, one of the organizers.
"The Delawares are coming home."

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Delaware's Nanticoke work to preserve their heritage


By PATRICIA V. RIVERA
December 4, 2005

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OAK ORCHARD - Growing up on the shores of southern Delaware's Indian River Bay
in the 1940s, Jean "Princess Laughing Water" Norwood knew little about
the white society that was rapidly surrounding her and her tribe.
Life outside her Nanticoke community in Oak Orchard was often unfair
and sometimes cruel to American Indians like her and to other people of color.

 

Nanticoke chiefs leave group over disputes (with early photos)
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Chiefs resign from Nanticoke Indian Association  

Nanticoke family burial plot identified...(Sussex County)

Why the Nanticoke moved from Maryland to Delaware

 

Artifacts are traced to early inhabitants
Indians lived on site planned for East Greenwich (NJ) homes
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July 21, 2003 •• 975 words •• ID: chr2003072209541665
By TIM ZATZARINY JR. Courier-Post Staff
EAST GREENWICH -- Digging into the site of a planned housing development here, an archaeological team found
pieces of a much earlier community. The excavation began in early April on a 52-acre former soybean farm off
Mantua-Paulsboro Road. Since then, archaeologists have uncovered roughly 5,000 artifacts that can be traced to the
Lenni Lenape Indians who once inhabited the area. The



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ONGOING RESEARCH, DISCUSSIONS

 

The Winnesoccum Disaster

The Crucible of American Indian Identity
By Ward Churchill

"Among the most vexed and divisive issues afflicting Native North America at the dawn of the twenty-first century are the questions of who it is who has a legitimate right to say he or she is American Indian, and by what criteria/whose definition this may or may not be true. Such queries, and the answers to them, hold an obvious and deeply important bearing, not only upon the personal sense of identity inhering in millions of individuals scattered throughout the continent, but in terms of the degree to which some form of genuine self-determination can be exercised by the more than four hundred nations indigenous to it in coming years. Conversely, they represent both an accurate gauge of the extent to which the sovereignty of North America's native peoples have been historically eroded or usurped by the continent's two preeminently colonial settler-states, the U.S. and Canada, and a preview of how the remainder stands to be eradicated altogether in the not-so-distant future."



Discussion:    TILGHMAN RIDGEWAY: ANCESTORS & DESCENDANTS

Little Union - Fork Branch - DuPont Cemetery, Dover, DE

John Durham Burial Ground
, near Cheswold, DE

The Native American origins of John Sanders (b 1811) of Cheswold

Blood Quantum

Records Which Denote Delaware-Born Individuals As "Indian"
INDIANS? WHAT INDIANS?
Did they really disappear from Delaware before 1770?


Loss of Identity in Virginia: Walter Plecker's Racist Crusade

Wyandot Treaty 1817

Speech To The Delawares, 1812

Moors, Color & White: Thoughts of Historians & Interested Folks

The "Self-Identification" rationalization

 

 

 

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Other "Mixed-blood" Research You Will Find At 



MOORS & NANTICOKES


Bible Records

Church Records & Cemeteries (scroll down)

Death Records

Marriage Records

Obituaries

Orphans' Court Records

Probate records

Kent County Tax, Rent & Levy lists
1727-1784
1782-1800

 

Sussex County Tax & Rent lists
1785-1800


Family Names


History



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KUSKARAWOAK & MITSAWOKETT

"The History and Genealogy of the
Native American Isolate Communities
of Delaware and
Surrounding Areas on the Delmarva Peninsula
and Southern New Jersey"

 

 


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