Delaware's Forgotten Folk The Story of the Moors and Nanticokes C. A. Weslager. Photographs by L. T. Alexander. Drawings by John Swientochowski "In 1943, Weslager's book helped Delaware's American Indians better understand their history, and now, more than 60 years later, will do so again."--Dover Post "By carefully searching old state records and antiquated sources, by utilizing all possible anthropological findings, and by making close ethnological investigation among the people themselves, the author] has prepared a study of profound sociological significance. In a simple,...

"One of the best tribal histories . . . the product of decades of study by a layman archeologist-historian. With a rich blend of archeology, anthropology, Indian oral traditions (he gives us one of the best accounts of the Walum Olum, the fascinating hieroglyphics depicting the tribal origins of the Delaware), and documentary research, Weslager writes for the general reader as well as the scholar."--American Historical Review

In the seventeenth century white explorers and settlers encountered a tribe of Indians calling themselves Lenni Lenape along the Delaware River and its tributaries...