Daniel Brinton - The Lenâpé and their Legends

See Loskiel, Geschichte der Mission , etc., pp. 32, 33; Heckewelder, History of the Indian Nations , chap. X.

Dr. Charles C. Abbott, Primitive Industry , pp. 71, 207, 347, 379, 384, 390, 391. Dr. Abbott's suggestion that the bird's head seen on several specimens might represent the totem of the Turkey gens of the Lenape cannot be well founded, if Heckewelder is correct in saying that their totemic mark was only the foot of the fowl. Ind. Nations , p. 253.

See Proceedings Amer. Philos. Soc. , Vol. X.

The subject is discussed, and comparative drawings of the native signatures reproduced, by Prof. D. B. Brunner, in his useful work, The Indians of Berks County, Pa. , p. 68 (Reading, 1881).

John Richardson's Diary, quoted in An Account of the Conduct of the Society of Friends toward the Indian Tribes , pp. 61, 62 (London, 1844).

History and Statistics of the Indian Tribes , Vol. I, plate 47, B, and pages 353, 354

"Amiable and benevolent," says Heckewelder, whose life he aided in saving on one occasion. Indian Nations , p. 285.

E. de Schweinitz, Life of Zeisberger , p. 469.

Relation des Jesuites , 1646, p. 33

Baraga, A Dictionary of the Otchipwe Language , s. v.

For an example, see de Schweinitz, Life of Zeisberger , p. 342.

Documentary History of New York , Vol. IV, p. 437.

Journal of Conrad Weiser ; in Early History of Western Penna. , p. 16.

Tran. Am. Phil. Soc. , Vol. IV, p. 384.

A Dictionary of the Abnaki Language , s. v. Peinture .

See ante p. 53.Mr. Francis Vincent, in his History of the State of Delaware , p. 36 (Phila., 1870), says of the colored earth of that locality, that it is "a highly argillaceous loam, interspersed with large and frequent masses of yellow, ochrey clay, some of which are remarkable for fineness of texture, not unlike lithomarge, and consists of white, yellow, red and dark blue clay in detached spots."

The Shawnees applied the same word to Paint Creek, which falls into the Scioto, close to Chilicothe. They named it Alamonee sepee , of which Paint Creek is a literal rendering. Rev. David Jones, A Journal of Two Visits to the West Side of the Ohio in 1772 and 1773 , p. 50.

Key into the Language of America , p. 206

Lawson, in his New Account of Carolina , p. 180, says that the natives there bore in mind their traditions by means of a "Parcel of Reeds of different Lengths, with several distinct Marks, known to none but themselves." James Adair writes of the Southern Indians "They count certain very remarkable things by notched square sticks, which are distributed among the head warriors and other chieftains of different towns." History of the Indians , p. 75.

Dr Edwin James, Narrative of John Tanner , p. 341

George Copway, Traditional History of the Ojibway Nation , pp 130, 131.

Schoolcraft, Indian Tribes , Vol. I, p. 339.

Brainerd, Life and Journal , p. 410.

E. de Schweinitz, Life and Times of Zeisberger , p. 92.

Mass. Hist. Soc. Colls ., 4th series, Vol. IX, where Captain Young's journal is printed.

Heckewelder MSS . in Amer Phil. Soc. Lib.

An Account of the Conduct of the Society of Friends toward the Indian Tribes , p. 72 (London, 1844).

"in books recorded. May, like hoarded Household words, no more depart!"

The records of my own family furnish an example of this. My ancestor, William Brinton, arrived in the fall of 1684, and, with his wife and children, immediately took possession of a grant in the unbroken wilderness, about twenty miles from Philadelphia. A severe winter set in; their food supply was exhausted, and they would probably have perished but for the assistance of some neighboring lodges of Lenape, who provided them with food and shelter. It is, therefore, a debt of gratitude which I owe to this nation to gather its legends, its language, and its memories, so that they,

A Discourse on the Aborigines of the Valley of the Ohio , p. 25 (Cinn., 1838). I add the further testimony of John Brickell, who was a captive among them from 1791 to 1796. He speaks of them as fairly virtuous and temperate, and adds: "Honesty, bravery and hospitality are cardinal virtues among them." Narrative of Captivity among the Delaware Indians , in the American Pioneer , Vol. I, p. 48 (Cincinnati, 1844).

Life and Journal, p. 381

"Others imagined the Sun to be the only deity, and that all things were made by him." David Brainerd, Life and Journal , p. 395.

Loskiel, Geschichte der Mission , p. 55.

David Brainerd, Life and Journal , pp. 395, 399.

D. G. Brinton, The Myths of the New World , chap. vi; American Hero Myths , chap ii.

Loskiel, Geschichte der Mission , p. 53.

He is thus spoken of in Campanius, Account of New Sweden , Book III, chap. xi. Compare my Myths of the New World , p. 190.

Brainerd, Life and Journal , p. 395.

His statements are in the Calls of the Mass Hist Soc , Vol. X (1st Series), p. 108.

Wm Strachey, Historie of Travaile into Virginia , p. 98

Brainerd, Life and Travels , p. 394.

Charles Beatty, Journal , p. 44.

One, about five inches in height, of a tough, argillaceous stone, is figured and described by Dr. C. C. Abbott, in the American Naturalist , October, 1882. It was found in New Jersey.

From the same root, tschip , are derived the Lenape tschipilek , something strange or wonderful; tschepsit , a stranger or foreigner; and tschapiet , the invocation of spirits. Among the rules agreed upon by Zeisberger's converted Indians was this: "We will use no tschapiet , or witchcraft, when hunting." (De Schweinitz, Life of Zeisberger , p. 379.)