Resources for the Lunaape/Delaware Living Land Acknowledgement

Munsee Delaware Grammar, http://munseedelaware.com/ Lunaapeew, Huluníixsuwaakan, Munsíiw, Delaware

Twitter https://twitter.com/ianmccallum3?lang=en

Unami resources:

For Southern Unami Dialect: Lenape Talking Dictionary, https://www.talk-lenape.org/

• Practicing Lunaape https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW3-FbTv7ttCalttPBurBOw/videos
• Munsee language Nalahiihttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8MCbsE5YmuNwFXYzDVhlfg

Online lectures on Munsee history by Chief Mark Peters, Munsee Delaware Nation:
https://www.publichistoryproject.org/category/chief-peters/

Grumet, Robert S. Beyond Manhattan:  A Gazetteer of Delaware Indian History, Reflected in Modern-Day Place Names. New York State Museum Record 5, 2014. A more wide-ranging survey of place names. https://www.nysm.nysed.gov/sites/default/files/nysmrecord-vol5-1.pdf

Walling, Richard S. “Locating a Lenape Landscape: Tatamy's Swamp, West Windsor Township, Mercer County, New Jersey.” Communipaw Consulting, 2012. https://www.westwindsorhistory.com/uploads/1/2/3/1/123111196/locating_a_lenape_landscape_-_tatamys_swamp.pdf

Armstrong, April C. “George Morgan White Eyes, Racial Theory at Princeton, and Student Financial Aid in the Eighteenth Century.” Mudd Manuscript Library Blog: News from the Princeton University Archives & Public Policy Papers Collection. 2 September 2020. https://blogs.princeton.edu/mudd/2020/09/george-morgan-white-eyes-racial-theories-at-princeton-and-federal-student-aid-in-the-eighteenth-century/

• on Lee Maracle, Memory Serves: https://www.megaphonic.fm/spouter/23 
• with Lee Maracle, on Dickens' Great Expectations: https://www.megaphonic.fm/spouter/29b
• on Lee Maracle, I Am Woman: https://www.megaphonic.fm/spouter/51
• on Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach: https://www.megaphonic.fm/spouter/35
• with Loretta Todd, director of Monkey Beach (film adaptation): https://www.megaphonic.fm/spouter/35b
• on Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: https://www.megaphonic.fm/spouter/43
• with Daniel Heath Justice, on his books Raccoon and Badger: https://www.megaphonic.fm/spouter/47b
• Daybreak, A Living Language, an Evening of Munsee Storytelling, https://share.transistor.fm/s/c194879c

Deeds/Nations / Directory of First Nations Individuals in South-Western Ontario 1750 - 1850 by Greg Curnoe. 1992.

"A Modern Delaware Tale" /  J. Dyneley Prince
Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society , Jan., 1902, Vol. 41, No. 168
(Jan., 1902), pp. 20-34 Published by: American Philosophical Society
Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/983519

Social dances of the Lenape and other North Eastern Indian Tribes / from the Delaware Tribe of Indians.

• Native Land Digital, information for living land acknowledgements https://native-land.ca/
• WHYY's article and map, "We just want to be welcomed back",  the Lenape seek a return home.
• New Netherlands, with a view of New Amsterdam, now New York, A.D. 1656
• Novi Belgii Novaeque Angliae : nec non partis Virginiae tabula multis in locis emendata 1682
• Map of 1700 East and West Jersey
• New Jersey 1795 Guthrie's Geography map

Theresa Stewart-Ambo, K. Wayne Yang; Beyond Land Acknowledgment in Settler Institutions. Social Text 1 March 2021; 39 (1 (146)): 21–46. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-8750076

Books available on the Institute campus through the HS-SS Library, collection code LLAC. They will be on a shelf by the entrance to the oversize room on the main floor and may be borrowed. Books available through Open Library may be read online after creating an account.

Deloria, Philip J. Playing Indian . Yale University, 1998, 2022 with new preface. E98.P99D45 2022. "This book explores how white Americans have used their ideas about Native Americans to shape national identity in different eras..." detail from back cover. Open Library https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2703902W/Playing_Indian?edition=key%3A/books/OL684144M

Ellis, Elizabeth N. The Great Power of Small Nations : Indigenous Diplomacy in the Gulf South. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023. E78.M75E45 2023. This title begins with the present-day Pointe-au-Chien Indian Tribe of Louisiana and explores how have they been able to retain portions of their homeland. The book examines the political systems of the various nations and what made them strong during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Grumet, Robert S. The Munsee Indians: A History. Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 2009. E99.M93G78 2009. Probably the best overview of Munsee (that is, speakers of the northern dialect of Lenape language; the southern dialect is Unami) history, with detailed notes.

Grumet, Robert S. First Manhattans: A History of the Indians of Greater New York. Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 2011. E99.M93G77 2011. A more reader-friendly and accessible overview of Munsee history, drawn in large part from Grumet’s 2009 The Munsee Indians.

Grumet, Robert S. From Manhattan to Minisink: American Indian Place Names in Greater New York and Vicinity. Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 2013. F117.G78 2013 Useful index with short descriptions of actual Indigenous place names, along with a shorter index of spurious “Indian” place names.

Grumet, Robert S. Beyond Manhattan : A Gazetteer of Delaware Indian History Reflected In modern-Day Place Names ; Munsee and Northern Unami Interpretations by
Ray Whritenou (related to the above title) http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/common/nysm/files/nysmrecord-vol5-1.pdf

McCallum, Mary Jane Logan. Nii Ndahlohke: Boys' and Girls' Work at Mount Elgin Residential School, 1890-1915 (Friesen Press, 2022) E96.5 .M33 2022

O'Meara, John. Delaware-English, English-Delaware Dictionary. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1996, 2014 reprint. PM1033.O43 1996

Less essential, but also useful:

Barker, Joanne. Red scare : the state's indigenous terrorist. University of California Press, 2021. E98.S67B37 2021

Blackhawk, Ned. The Rediscovery of America : native peoples and the unmaking of U.S. History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2023. E77.B64 2023

Brunette-Debassige, Candace. Tricky Grounds : Indigenous Women’s Experiences in Canadian University Administration. Regina, Saskatchewan: University of Regina Press, 2023.  LB2341 .8.C3B78 2023.

Cornelius, Carol. A History in Indigenous Voices : : Menominee, Ho-Chunk, Oneida, Stockbridge, and Brothertown Interactions in the Removal Era. Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2023. KIH40 .C67 2023

Coulthard, Glen Sean. Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition / Alfred, Taiaiake, ; Writer of Foreword. Indigenous Americas; Variation: Indigenous Americas. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2014. E92 .C68 2014

Dowd, Gregory Evans. War Under Heaven : Pontiac, the Indian Nations, & the British Empire. Baltimore ; London : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. E83 .76 .D69 2002

Eyerly, Sarah Justina. Moravian Soundscapes : A Sonic History of the Moravian Missions in Early Pennsylvania  Music, Nature, Place; Variation: Music, Nature, Place. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2020. BV2560.E94 2020 : companion web page: https://moraviansoundscapes.music.fsu.edu/ 

Hawk, Shane, editor., and (Editor). Never Whistle at Night : An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology. New York: Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2023. PS647.I5 N48 2023

Justice, Daniel Heath. Why Indigenous Literatures Matter.  Indigenous Studies Series; Variation: Indigenous Studies Series. Waterloo, Ontario, Canada: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2018.  PS153.I52J878 2018

Kimmerer, Robin Wall. Braiding Sweetgrass : indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the teachings of plants. Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2020. E98.P5K56 2020 https://archive.org/details/braidingsweetgra0000kimm

Kimmerer, Robin Wall. Gathering Moss : A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses. Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University Press, 2003. QK537 .K56 2003  https://archive.org/details/gatheringmossnat0000kimm

Lajimodiere, Denise K. Stringing Rosaries : The History, the Unforgivable, and the Healing of Northern Plains American Indian Boarding School Survivors. Contemporary Voices of Indigenous Peoples Series ;; Volume 2; Variation: Contemporary Voices of Indigenous Peoples Series ;; v. 2. Fargo, ND: North Dakota State University Press, 2019. E97.5 .L35 2019

Mann, Vincent, (Chief of the Turtle Clan of the Ramapough Lunaape Nation), (Ramapough Lunaape Nation activist), author. Bakshi, Anita, and editor. Our Land, Our Stories: Excavating Subterranean Histories of Ringwood Mines and the Ramapough Lunaape Nation / Mann, Wayne, ; Author. [New Brunswick, New Jersey?] : Design for Public History, [Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada] : Hemlock Printers, 2022. GE235.N5 O97 2022

Maracle, Lee, and editor. Memory Serves : Oratories . Writer as Critic ;; 13; Variation: Writer as Critic Series ;; v. 13. Edmonton, AB: NeWest Press, 2015.  E99.S72M37 2015

McAdam, Sylvia. Nationhood Interrupted : Revitalizing Nêhiyaw Legal Systems. Saskatoon, SK, Canada: Purich Publishing Limited, 2015.KID7860.5 .M334 2015

Monkman, Kent. Being legendary at Royal Ontario Museum : confronting colonialism. Art Canada Institute, 2022. ND249.M568A4 2022

Monkman, Kent, and author. The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle:A True and Exact Accounting of the History of Turtle Island = ᐅᑭᐢᑭᓯᐏᓇ ᐅᑭᒫᐏᐢᑵᐤ ᑭᐦᐁᐤ ᒥᑎᓱᐘᐩ / = Okiskisiwina Okimâwiskwêw Kihêw Mitisoway. [Toronto]: McClelland & Stewart, 2023. N6549.M646A2 2023

Native American art : the collections of the Ethnological Museum Berlin / Peter Bolz, Hans-Ulrich Sanner. Seattle : University of Washington Press, [1999]  E98.A7B66 1999

Orange, Tommy. There There. New York: Vintage Books, 2018. "Tommy Orange's novel follows twelve characters from Native communities: all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow...together this chorus of voices tells of the plight of the urban Native American"--books jacket. PS3615.R32T48 2019b

Peters, Paula (Wampanoag Indian). Mashpee Nine : A Story of Cultural Justice  [Cataloging in Progress]. Mashpee, MA: SmokeSygnals, 2016. E99.M4P48 2016 https://archive.org/details/mashpeeninestory0000pete

Robinson, Eden. Monkey Beach  Toronto: Vintage Canada, 2001. PR9199 .3 .R5334M6 2001.

Roeber, A.G. Ethnographies and Exchanges: Native Americans, Moravians, and Catholics in Early North America. University Park: Penn State UP, 2008. E98.M6E84 2008. Includes a few contributions on Moravian missions to Lenape communities displaced from Lenape territory to western Pennsylvania and beyond.

Schutt, Amy C. People of the River Valleys: The Odyssey of the Delaware Indians. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2007. E99.D2S34 2007. Seventeenth and eighteenth-century history of the region, with a focus on Lenape alliances in the context of their displacement.

Simpson, Audra. Mohawk Interruptus : Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States. Durham: Duke University Press, 2014. E99.M8S56 2014. This is an ethnographic study of the Mohawks of Kahnawa:ke, a community in southwestern Quebec who are a part of the Haudenosaunee or Iroquois Confederacy. Simpson writes on their struggle to maintain political sovereignty.

Soderlund, Jean R. Lenape Country: Delaware Valley Society Before William Penn. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania Press, 2014.  F157.D4S68 2015. On early Delaware Valley history (seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries), including Swedish and Finnish settlement, as well as the consolidation of the Dutch and British settlement in the region.

Torrence, Gaylord, with contributions by Ned Blackhawk and Sylvia Yount. Art of Native America : The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection.  New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New Haven : Distributed by Yale University Press, 2018. E98.A7T64 2018.

Townsend, Camilla. On the Turtle’s Back: Stories the Lenape Told Their Grandchildren / Michael, Nicky Kay, ; Editor. CERES: Rutgers Studies in History; Variation: Ceres: Rutgers Studies in History. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2023. E99.D2 O55 2023

Washuta, Elissa. White Magic : Essays. Portland, Oregon: Tin House, 2021.  BF1598.W37 A3 2021

Wilson, Shawn. Research Is Ceremony : Indigenous Research Methods. Black Point, N.S.: Fernwood Pub., 2008. GN380.W554 2008.