Further Reading

Further Reading 

See the following list, provided by Co-Curator and Storykeeper Adam Waterbear DePaul, for further information about the Lenape Nation of Pennsylvania and Lenape culture. For books on Lenape mythology, contact Adam through the Lenape Nation of Pennsylvania's website. 

Lenape History

Clinton Alfred Weslager. The Delaware Indians: A History. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1989. 

Mark Raymond Harrington. Indians of New Jersey: Dickon Among the Lenapes. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1963.  

David Minterhout. Native Americans in the Susquehanna River Valley, Past and Present. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2013.

Herbert C. Kraft. Indians of Lenapehoking. South Orange, NJ: Seton Hall University Museum, 1988. 

Herbert C. Kraft. The Lenape or Delaware Indians: The Original People of New Jersey, Southeastern New York State, Eastern Pennsylvania, Northern Delaware and Parts of Western Connecticut. South Orange, NJ: Seton Hall University Museum, 1996. 

John R. Norwood. We Are Still Here! Moorestown, NJ: Native New Jersey Publications, 2007.  

Lenape Language Place Names 

George P. Donehoo. A History of the Indian Villages and Place Names in Pennsylvania. Neiman-Marcus, TX: Papamoa Press, 1928. 

Paul Wallace. Indian Paths of Pennsylvania. University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 1965.

Plant Medicine 

George A. Hill, Jr  and Jim Rementer. Delaware Ethnobotany. Norman, OK: Oklahoma Anthropological Society, 2015. 

Gladys Tantaquidgeon. A Study of Delaware Indian Medicine Practice and Folk Beliefs. Andesite Press, 2017.

Lenape Stories 

Nancy Van Laan. Rainbow Crow. Decorah, IA: Dragonfly Books, 1991.