History, manners, and customs of The Indian Nations who once inhabited Pennsylvania and the neighbouring states

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Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823

Title

History, Manners, and Customs of the Indian Nations Who Once Inhabited Pennsylvania and the Neighbouring States.

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Produced by Shaun Pinder, Wayne hammond, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

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English

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E011: History: America: America

Subject

Indians of North America -- Pennsylvania -- Languages

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Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 50350

Release Date

October 31, 2015

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Publications OF THE Historical Society of Pennsylvania. HISTORY, MANNERS, AND CUSTOMS OF THE INDIAN NATIONS .
2. 2.INTRODUCTION . BY THE EDITOR.
3. 3.DEDICATION TO CASPAR WISTAR, M.D., PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, ETC.
4. 4.CONTENTS PART I.
5. 5.INTRODUCTION
6. 6.PART I. HISTORY, MANNERS, AND CUSTOMS OF THE INDIAN NATIONS, WHO ONCE INHABITED PENNSYLVANIA AND THE NEIGHBOURING STATES.
7. 7.History, Manners, and Customs OF THE INDIAN NATIONS. CHAPTER I. HISTORICAL TRADITIONS OF THE INDIANS.
8. 8.CHAPTER II. INDIAN ACCOUNT OF THE FIRST ARRIVAL OF THE DUTCH AT NEW YORK ISLAND.
9. 9.CHAPTER III. INDIAN RELATIONS OF THE CONDUCT OF THE EUROPEANS TOWARDS THEM.
10. 10.CHAPTER IV. SUBSEQUENT FATE OF THE LENAPE AND THEIR KINDRED TRIBES. — The Shawanos or Sawanos. 88 — The Nanticokes. — The Mahicanni, or Mohicans.
11. 11.CHAPTER V. THE IROQUOIS.
12. 12.CHAPTER VI. GENERAL CHARACTER OF THE INDIANS.
13. 13.CHAPTER VII. GOVERNMENT.
14. 14.CHAPTER VIII. EDUCATION.
15. 15.CHAPTER IX. LANGUAGES. — I. The Karalit. — II. The Iroquois. — III. The Lenape. — IV. The Floridian.
16. 16.CHAPTER X. SIGNS AND HIEROGLYPHICS.
17. 17.CHAPTER XI. ORATORY.
18. 18.CHAPTER XII. METAPHORICAL EXPRESSIONS.
19. 19.CHAPTER XIII. INDIAN NAMES.
20. 20.CHAPTER XIV. INTERCOURSE WITH EACH OTHER.
21. 21.CHAPTER XV. POLITICAL MANŒUVRES.
22. 22.CHAPTER XVI. MARRIAGE AND TREATMENT OF THEIR WIVES.
23. 23.CHAPTER XVII. RESPECT FOR THE AGED.
24. 24.CHAPTER XVIII. PRIDE AND GREATNESS OF MIND.
25. 25.CHAPTER XIX. WARS AND THE CAUSES WHICH LEAD TO THEM.
26. 26.CHAPTER XX. MANNER OF SURPRISING THEIR ENEMIES.
27. 27.CHAPTER XXI. PEACE MESSENGERS.
28. 28.CHAPTER XXII. TREATIES.
29. 29.CHAPTER XXIII. GENERAL OBSERVATIONS OF THE INDIANS ON THE WHITE PEOPLE.
30. 30.CHAPTER XXIV. FOOD AND COOKERY.
31. 31.CHAPTER XXV. DRESS, AND ORNAMENTING OF THEIR PERSONS.
32. 32.CHAPTER XXVI. DANCES, SONGS, AND SACRIFICES. — The Song of the Lenape Warriors going against the Enemy.
33. 33.CHAPTER XXVII. SCALPING—WHOOPS OR YELLS—PRISONERS.
34. 34.CHAPTER XXVIII. BODILY CONSTITUTION AND DISEASES.
35. 35.CHAPTER XXIX. REMEDIES.
36. 36.CHAPTER XXX. PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS.
37. 37.CHAPTER XXXI. DOCTORS OR JUGGLERS.
38. 38.CHAPTER XXXII. SUPERSTITION.
39. 39.CHAPTER XXXIII. INITIATION OF BOYS.
40. 40.CHAPTER XXXIV. INDIAN MYTHOLOGY. — The Extract.
41. 41.CHAPTER XXXV. INSANITY—SUICIDE.
42. 42.CHAPTER XXXVI. DRUNKENNESS.
43. 43.CHAPTER XXXVII. FUNERALS.
44. 44.CHAPTER XXXVIII. FRIENDSHIP.
45. 45.CHAPTER XXXIX. PREACHERS AND PROPHETS. — Account of the Death of Leather-Lips.
46. 46.CHAPTER XL. SHORT NOTICE OF THE INDIAN CHEIFS, TAMANEND AND TADEUSKUND.
47. 47.CHAPTER XLI. COMPUTATION OF TIME—ASTROMICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL KNOWLEDGE.
48. 48.CHAPTER XLII. GENERAL OBSERVATIONS AND ANECDOTES.
49. 49.CHAPTER XLIII. ADVICE TO TRAVELLERS.
50. 50.CHAPTER XLIV. THE INDIANS AND THE WHITES COMPARED.
51. 51.CONCLUSION.
52. 52.ERRATA IN PART I
53. 53.PART II. A CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE REV. JOHN HECKEWELDER . OF BETHLEHEM, AND PETER S. DUPONCEAU, ESQ. , CORRESPONDING SECRETARY OF THE HISTORICAL AND LITERARY COMMITTEE OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, RESPECTING THE Languages of the American Indians.
54. 54.INTRODUCTION
55. 55.CORRESPONDENCE RESPECTING THE INDIAN LANGUAGES. LETTER I. MR. DUPONCEAU TO MR. HECKEWELDER.
56. 56.LETTER II. DR. C. WISTAR TO MR. HECKEWELDER.
57. 57.LETTER III. MR. HECKEWELDER TO DR. WISTAR.
58. 58.LETTER IV. FROM THE SAME TO THE SAME.
59. 59.LETTER V. FROM MR. DUPONCEAU TO DR. WISTAR.
60. 60.LETTER VI. FROM DR. WISTAR TO MR. HECKEWELDER.
61. 61.LETTER VII. MR. HECKEWELDER TO MR. DUPONCEAU.
62. 62.LETTER VIII. MR. DUPONCEAU TO MR. HECKEWELDER. — DELAWARE NUMERALS.
63. 63.LETTER IX. FROM THE SAME TO THE SAME. — Queries. — EXAMPLES.
64. 64.LETTER X. MR. HECKEWELDER TO MR. DUPONCEAU. — INDICATIVE, PRESENT, POSITIVE. — FIRST PERSONAL FORM. I. — SECOND PERSONAL FORM. THOU. — THIRD PERSONAL FORM. HE, ( or SHE.) — FOURTH PERSONAL FORM. WE. — FIFTH PERSONAL FORM. YOU. — SIXTH PERSONAL FORM. THEY.
65. 65.LETTER XI. FROM MR. HECKEWELDER.
66. 66.LETTER XII. TO MR. HECKEWELDER.
67. 67.LETTER XIII. TO MR. HECKEWELDER.
68. 68.LETTER XIV. FROM MR. HECKEWELDER.
69. 69.LETTER XV. FROM THE SAME.
70. 70.LETTER XVI. TO MR. HECKEWELDER.
71. 71.LETTER XVII. TO THE SAME.
72. 72.LETTER XVIII. FROM MR. HECKEWELDER.
73. 73.LETTER XIX. FROM THE SAME.
74. 74.LETTER XX. TO MR. HECKEWELDER.
75. 75.LETTER XXI. FROM MR. HECKEWELDER. — INDICATIVE PRESENT.
76. 76.LETTER XXII. FROM THE SAME. — EXTRACT.
77. 77.LETTER XXIII. TO MR. HECKEWELDER.
78. 78.LETTER XXIV. FROM MR. HECKEWELDER. — THE LORD’S PRAYER IN THE DELAWARE LANGUAGE.
79. 79.LETTER XXV. TO MR. HECKEWELDER. — FIRST TRANSITION. — SECOND TRANSITION. — THIRD TRANSITION. — FOURTH TRANSITION. — FIFTH TRANSITION. — SIXTH TRANSITION.
80. 80.LETTER XXVI. FROM MR. HECKEWELDER.
81. 81.ERRATA IN PART II.
82. 82.ADDITIONAL ERRATUM IN PART I.
83. 83.PART III. WORDS, PHRASES, AND SHORT DIALOGUES, IN THE LANGUAGE OF THE LENNI LENAPE, OR DELAWARE INDIANS . BY THE REV. JOHN HECKEWELDER, OF BETHLEHEM.
84. 84.WORDS, PHRASES, ETC., OF THE LENNI LENAPE, OR DELAWARE INDIANS.
85. 85.INDEX.
86. 86.FOOTNOTES: — Transcriber’s Note:

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