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The Indians of New Jersey : Dickon among the Lenapes

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    Certified Accessible By: National Network for Equitable Library Service
    Running Time: 08:36 hrs
    Narrator: Alex Moskos
    Publisher:
    BC Libraries Cooperative, 2023
    Note: his book was recorded thanks to support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

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  • Contributor: Ellsworth, Clarence
    Date:
    Created
    1963
    Summary:

    Here is a story of the Lenape Indians who lived in what is now New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania. It describes their culture, crafts, and language as no other book has done. Hunters, fishers, artisans of flint and skins and basketry, tellers of traditional tales, dwellers in a region of hills and barrens, of rivers and forests, they had developed a way of life adjusted to the world around them. In presenting the lore and heritage of the Lenapes, Dr. M.R. Harrington does so through the eyes of a shipwrecked English boy who became a captive of the Indians, and was eventually adopted into the tribe. The narrative is lively reading, and the facts on which it is based are accurate. With the accompanying Clarence Ellsworth line drawings, the reader can understand and even reproduce many of the objects the author describes: the Lenape bows and arrows, muccasins and mats, baskets and bowls.

    Original Publisher: New Brunswick, N.J., Rutgers University Press
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 0813504252, 9780813504254