http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/ohc/history/h_indian/tribes/delaware.shtmlThe Delaware Indians, also called the Lenape, originally lived along the Delaware River in New Jersey. They speak a form of the Algonquian Indian language and are thus related to the Miami, Ottawa, and Shawnee Indians. The Delawares are called "Grandfathers" by the other Algonquian tribes because they believe them to be the oldest and original Algonquian nation.
As British colonists came to North America, the Delawares fled westward from the land-hungry Europeans. While trying to escape the British colonists, the Delawares encountered the Iroquois Indians, who proceeded to conquer the Delawares and drive them further west. Some Delaware Indians came to live in eastern Ohio along the Muskingum River, while others settled in northwestern Ohio along the Auglaize River. Once in Ohio, the Delawares grew into a powerful tribe that could resist the further advances of the Iroquois.
Upon arriving in the Ohio Country, the Delawares formed alliances with Frenchmen engaged in the fur trade. The French provided the natives with European cookware and guns, as well as alcohol, in return for furs. This alliance would prove to be tenuous at best, as French and English colonists struggled for control of the Ohio Country beginning in the 1740s. As one European power gained control of the area the Delawares chose to ally themselves with the stronger party. This held true until the Treaty of Paris ended the French and Indian War. As a result of this war, the French abandoned all of their North American colonies to England. The Delawares henceforth remained loyal to the British and the American colonists until the American Revolution.
During the Revolution, the Delawares became a divided people. Many, especially those who had adopted Christianity and lived in the Moravian Church missions at Schoenbrunn and Gnadenhutten, attempted to remain neutral in the conflict. Other Delawares supported the English, who had assumed the role of the French traders at the end of the French and Indian War. These natives thanked England for the Proclamation of 1763, which prohibited colonists from settling any further west than the Appalachian Mountains, and feared that, if the Americans were victorious, the Delawares would be driven from their lands. Despite the Delawares' fears, many Americans hoped that they could count on the tribe as allies. As the war progressed, however, not all Americans trusted them. In 1782, a group of Pennsylvania militiamen, falsely believing the natives were responsible for several raids, killed almost one hundred Christian Delawares in what became known as the Gnadenhutten Massacre. Although these Delawares were friendly to the Americans, they suffered due to the fears of their white neighbors.
Following the American victory in the Revolution, the Delawares struggled against whites as they moved onto the natives' territory. In 1794, General Anthony Wayne defeated the Delawares and other Ohio Indians at the Battle of Fallen Timbers. The natives surrendered most of their Ohio lands with the signing of the Treaty of Greenville in 1795.
In 1829, the United States forced the Delawares to relinquish their remaining land in Ohio. They were sent to live in Kansas.
Famous Delaware Indians:
White Eyes
Netawatwees (Newcomer)
Events:
Pontiac's Rebellion (1763)
Lord Dunmore's War (1774)
Battle of Point Pleasant (1774)
American Revolution
Gnadenhutten Massacre (1782)
Harmar's Defeat (1790)
St. Clair's Defeat (1791)
Battle of Fallen Timbers (1794)
Places:
Big Bottom
Coshocton
Fallen Timbers
Fort Jefferson
Fort Laurens
Fort Meigs
Fort Recovery
Gnaddenhutten
Schoenbrunn
Treaties:
Treaty of Fort McIntosh (1785)
Treaty of Greenville (1795)
Treaty of Fort Industry (1805)
Treaty of Maumee Rapids (1817)
For Further Reading:
Kraft, Herbert C.
1987 The Lenape Indians of New Jersey. Seton Hall University Museum, South Orange, New Jersey.
Links:
Delaware Tribe:
http://www.delawaretribeofindians.nsn.us/ =========================
By 1778 the Chickamauga Cherokee were fighting agains the US government again. If Cherokee attended his funeral, it would not have been from this faction of the Cherokee Nation, but rather those from the "Upper Towns".
Still why would his funeral have been in ew Jersey?? I suspect the ceators of this "myth" saw that his son attended Princton,Univercity and "assumed" the father, White Eyes, had died in New Jersey.
Looks like that Lenape/Cherokee New Jersey website is more "revisionist" history all the time . . .
It clearly lists his home as Coshocton. Well there is a Coshonton, Ohio, county seat of Coshonton County. From the above link the Lenape lived in Coshocton in Ohio.
