The Lenape Indians
GRADES 5 THROUGH 8
Books, Articles and Teachers Guides
"A Lenape Indian Myth," pp. 10-14.
In The Folklore and Folklife of New Jersey
David Steven Cohen. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1983.
The Indians of New Jersey: Dickon Among the Lenape, 1938
Reprint; Harrington, M.R. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1963.
The Indians of Lenape-hoking (The Lenape or Delaware Indians)
Kraft, Herbert C. and John T. Kraft. South Orange, N.J.: Seton Hall University Museum, 1985.
"The Indigenous Population of Bergen County" (online article)
Wright, Kevin. Bergen County Historical Society.
Audio and Video
Fortunes in Furs
A 30-minute television documentary about relations between the Dutch, the Swedes, and the Lenape. A co-production of New Jersey Network and the New Jersey Historical Commission, 1992.
GRADES 9 THROUGH 12
Books, Articles and Teachers Guides
"Lenapehoking: the Indians' New Jersey"
(Discovery, Settlement, and Cultivation; the Lenapes and their Languages; Government in Peace and War; Annual Round; the Creation; Lenape Childhood, Women and Agriculture; Men and Animals; Death and the Afterlife, the Supreme Being) pp. 9-30. In The Indians of New Jersey
Gregory Evans Dowd, New Jersey History Series
Trenton: New Jersey Historical Commission, 1992.
"The Lenape and the Land"
(Natural World, Amerindian Settlement, Seasonal Rhythm of Life, Indian Trails, Bounding the Land), pp. 11-21. In An Ecological History of New Jersey
Charles A. Stansfield, Jr. New Jersey History Series
Trenton: New Jersey Historical Commission, 1996.
The Lenapes
Indians of North America Series. New York and Philadelphia
Grumet, Robert S.Chelsea House, 1989.
"The Women of Lenapehoking," pp. 28-30.
In Past and Promise: Lives of New Jersey Women
Women's Project of New Jersey. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1996.
Audio and Video
Fortunes in Furs
A 30-minute television documentary about relations between the Dutch, the Swedes, and the Lenape. A co-production of New Jersey Network and the New Jersey Historical Commission, 1992.
Documents
Words That Make New Jersey History
Edited by Howard L. Green. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1995.
A Legend of the First Lenape Encounter with Europeans, pp. 4-6.
Online Lectures
Gregory Dowd - The Delaware and the Covenant Chain
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Internet Sites
The New Jersey History Partnership Project
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