'Lenape Language of the Delaware Indians' is a CD-ROM with a basic introducion to the Delaware or "Lenape" Indian Language. It is designed to be used on a computer and it's purpose is to teach the basics of the "Lenape" language.
Complete pronunciation guide to a 200 word glossary. This program provides the most complete self-study Leni Lenape language program available. Three audio tapes - 21 lesson workbook. You will learn common phrases, family terms, numbers, tribal...
In early colonial times the Delaware Indians inhabited the Delaware Valley, in the states of New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Delaware. Beginning about 1720 they were gradually driven westward, first by the hostile Iroquois, later by the white man. Today they number less than 1,000, most of whom live in Oklahoma, near the town of Anadarko, the rest in southern Ontario, near the city of Brantford. The Delawares call themselves Lenape "The People." Their language is of the Algonkian family.
Now at the time when the earth quaked, so it is said, a great cracking, rumbling noise arose here from down in the ground below. And there came rising dust and smoke, while here and there came rising something sticky, looking like tar, a black fluid. That substance overflowed down into the earth. That was when the great gaps opened in the ground, here where we dwell upon our mother's body.
So even it was not known what purpose was intended for the black fluid substance blown forth from below. There the earth lay gaping open and when the dust and smoke were seen, it was said to be the breath of the Evil Spirit.