THE GEORGE CATLIN INDIAN GALLERY. 199 



In my travels on the Upper Missouri and in the Rocky Mountains I learned, to my 

 utter astonishment, that little parties of these adventurous myrmidons, of only six 

 or eight in numbers, had visited those remote tribes, at two thousand miles distance, 

 and in several instances, after having cajoled a whole tribe — having been feasted in 

 their villages, having solemnized the articles of everlasting peace with them, and re- 

 ceived many presents at their hands, and taken affectionate leave — have brought 

 away six or eight scalps with them, and, nevertheless, braved their way and defended 

 themselves as they retreated in safety out of their enemies' country and through the 

 regions of other hostile tribes, where they managed to receive the same honors and 

 come off with similar trophies. 



Amongst this tribe there are some renowned chiefs, whose lives, if correctly written, 

 would be matter of the most extraordinary kind for the reading world, and of which 

 it may be in my power at some future time to give a more detailed account. — G. C. 



ALGONKIN— DELAWARES. 



When first discovered by the whites the Delawares were living on the banks of the 

 Delaware in detached bands under separate sachems, and called themselves Renappi — 

 a collective term for men — or, as it is now written, Lenni Lendpe. In 1616 the Dutch 

 began trading with them, maintaining friendly relations most of the time, and buying 

 so much of their land that they had to move inland for game and furs. William Penn 

 and his followers succeeding, kept up the trade and bought large tracts of land, but 

 the Indians claimed to have been defrauded, and showed a reluctance to move. They 

 then numbered about 6,000. With the assistance of the Indians of the Six Nations 

 the authorities compelled the Delawares to retire. At the beginning of the Revolu- 

 tion there were none east of the Alleghanies. By treaty in 1789 lands were reserved 

 to them between the Miami and Cuyahoga and on the Muskingum, in Ohio. They 

 were called by the Indians of the Northwest Territory Elanab'ah, or people from the 

 sunrise. In 1818 the Delawares ceded all their lands to the Government and removed 

 to White River, Missouri, to the number of 1,800, leaving a small number in Ohio. 

 Another change followed eleven years after (1829), when 1,000 settled by treaty on 

 the Kansas and Missouri Rivers, the rest going south to Red River. 



During the late rebellion they furnished 170 soldiers out of an able-bodied male 

 population of 201 to the Union cause; in 1866 sold their land to the railroad which 

 ran across it, and buying land of the Cherokees, settled where the main body now 

 resides, merging with the Cherokees, small bands being scattered about among the 

 Wichitas and Kiowas. 



In 1866, by a special treaty, they received and divided the funds held for their ben- 

 efit, took lands in severalty, and ceased to be regarded as a tribe. They have given 

 up their Indian ways and live in comfortable houses. Many of them are efficient 

 farmers and good citizens. They are becoming so incorporated with other tribes that 

 there has been no late enumeration made of them as a whole. — W. H. Jackson, 1877. 



For an exhaustive history of the Delaware Indians, see "The Lenap6 

 and their legends, with a comj^lete text and symbols of the Walam 

 Oliuu — a new translation, and an inquiry into its authenticity, by Daniel 

 G. Brinton, A. M., M. D.," etc. Philadelphia, 1885. 



DELAWARES IN CANADA, JUNE, 1885. 



A few Delawares, 130 in all, living near the remnant of the Six ^STa- 

 tions, now reside on the Grand Eiver Keserve, in Canada, near Brant- 

 ford, Ontario. At the reinterment of the remains of Eed Jacket, at 

 Buffalo, K Y., October 9, 1884, Eev. Albert Anthony (Lone Pine) and 



