200 THE GEORGE CATLIN INDIAN GALLERY. 



three chiefs from Canada were present. In an interview they gave the 

 following data as to the Delawares : 



Our people [the Delawares] call themselves L'enape, meaning men, or the real or 

 true ineu. We often speak of ourselves as the Wa-jja-nachki, or people of the morn- 

 ing,* in allusion to our supposed eastern origin. Our traditions affirm that at the 

 period of the discovery of America our nation resided on the island of New York 

 (Manhattan?). We called that island Man-a-hd-touh, the place where timber is pro- 

 cured for bows and arrows. The word is compounded of N'man-hum-in, I gather, ami 

 ian-ning, at the place. At the lower end of the island was a grove of hickory trees 

 of peculiar strength and toughness. Our fathers held this timber in high esteem as 

 material for constructing bows, war clubs, &c. 



When we were driven back by the whites our nation became divided into two bands, 

 one was termed Minsi, the great stone, the other was called We-natv-mien, down the 

 river, they being located farther down the stream than our settlement. 



We called the Susquehanna A-theth-qua-nee, the roily river. The Monougahela was 

 was called Mc-hman-naii-iving-geh-lau, many landslides. 



When we lived on the banks of that river, say as late as one hundred and thirty 

 years ago, a herd of bisons used annually to come down the western bauk of the river. 

 We called this animal Ah-pa-quali-checoe, wild cow. The Alleghany Mountains were 

 called by us Al-lick-e-wa-ny, he is leaving us and may never return. Reference is 

 made, I suppose, to departing hunters or warriors who were about to enter the passes 

 of those rugged mountains. 



There are about 130 of our people residing on the Grand-River Reserve ; the residue 

 are scattered over the continent. — Transactions of the Buffalo (N. Y.) Historical So- 

 ciety, " Red Jacket," vol. 3, pages 102, 103, 1885. 



PRESENT LOCATION AND NUMBER IN THE UNITED STATES. 



Delawares at Kiowa, Comanche, and Wichita Agency, Indian Terri- 

 tory, June, 1884, 74; August 31, 1885, 71. Slowly decreasing. Civil- 

 ized. Farmers and herders. 



Delawares, near the Cherokees, one of the five civilized tribes in In- 

 dian Territory, supposed to be about 1,000. Civilized. Farmers and 

 herders. Joined the Cherokees in 1866 ; tribal relations abandoned. 



(See Hayden's Portraits; and also title Cherokee, herein.) 



SHA-Wl-NO (SHAW-NEE). 



[Shawnee: Laws of the United States. Shawnee and Shawano: Indian Bureau, 



June, 1885.] 



Remains of a numerous tribe, formerly inhabiting part of Pennsylvania, afterwards 

 Ohio, and recently removed west of the Mississippi River. Number at present about 

 1,200; lost one-half by small-pox at different times. Semi-civilized; intemperate. 



Mr. Catlin visited them in 1831, on the Kon-zas (Kansas) Eiver. 



277. Lay-law-she-kaw, He who Goes up the River; a very aged man, chief of 

 the tribe; his ears slit and elongated by wearing weights in them, accord- 

 ing to the custom of the tribe, and his hair whitened with age. Painted 

 in 1831. 



(Plate No. 211, page 116, vol. 2, Catliu's Eight Years.) 

 A very aged but extraordinary man, with a fine and intelligent head, and his 

 ears slit and stretched down to his shoulders, a custom highly valued in this tribe, 



* The Senecas called the Delawares Dyo-hens-govola ,• literally, from whence the morning springs. 



