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Sentence Examples
Among the tribes represented were Delawares, Iroquois, Wyandots, Miamis, Ottawas, Pottawattamies, Creeks, Sac and Fox, Choctaw.
This Indian Territory was where eastern Indian tribes such as the Kickapoos, Delawares, and Shawnees lived.
An attack on an outlying settlement in January 1791 had prompted more than four years of conflict with the local Delawares and Wyandots.
When the Delawares protested that they had been cheated, Logan made a military alliance with the Iroquois, who drove the Delawares out.
Anderson well understands that Delawares, Shawnees, and other semi-dependents broke free of the League, but they were not its most serious problem.
As I passed over those magnificent bottoms of the Kansas, which form the reservations of the Delawares, Potawatamies, etc.
Of equal interest is the picture writing especially well developed among the Chippewas and Delawares.
Examples from Classical Literature
Now the Delawares Nam'd me for my eyes, and I was called after the far-sighted hawk.
My race has gone from the shores of the salt lake and the hills of the Delawares.
I was then a younker, and went out with the Delawares, because I know'd they were a scandalized and wronged race.
Do the Delawares crawl upon those they love like snakes, twisting themselves to strike?
Do my young men leave the Delawares room on the mountains for their Hunts?
The remnants of the Mohicans, and the Delawares, of the Creeks, Choctaws, and Cherokees, are destined to fulfil their time on these vast plains.
In these pages, Lenni-Lenape, Lenope, Delawares, Wapanachki, and Mohicans, all mean the same people, or tribes of the same stock.
Such, Delawares, is the belief of the children of the turtle.
It had, however, served to apprise the Delawares of the position and the intentions of their enemies.
I met him with a party of the Delawares, on the trail of the Iroquois, who had been down and taken five scalps on the Schoharie.
The Delawares have been like bears after the honey pots, prowling around my village.
Are their souls to enter the land of the just like hungry Iroquois or unmanly Delawares, or shall they meet their friends with arms in their hands and robes on their backs?
William Penn was termed Minquon by the Delawares, and, as he never used violence or injustice in his dealings with them, his reputation for probity passed into a proverb.
Strung around them are scalps, of boys as well as of pirates, for these are the Piccaninny tribe, and not to be confused with the softer-hearted Delawares or the Hurons.
The Delawares are children of the tortoise, and they outstrip the deer.
