Delaware Tribe of Indians : (Oklahoma Social Studies Standards, OSDE)

              1 July 2014
OKLAHOMA INDIAN TRIBE EDUCATION GUIDE
Delaware Tribe of Indians (Oklahoma Social Studies Standards, OSDE)
Tribe: Delaware Tribe of Indians Tribal website(s): http//www.delawaretribe.org
1. Migration/movement/forced removal
Oklahoma History C3 Standard 2.3 “Integrate visual and textual evidence to explain the reasons for and trace the migrations of Native American peoples including the Five Tribes into present-day Oklahoma, the Indian Removal Act of 1830, and tribal resistance to the forced relocations.”
Oklahoma History C3 Standard 2.7 “Compare and contrast multiple points of view to evaluate the impact of the Dawes Act which resulted in the loss of tribal communal lands and the redistribution of lands by various means including land runs as typified by the Unassigned Lands and the Cherokee Outlet, lotteries, and tribal allotments.”
Original Homeland – present day states of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, and Delaware
Location In Oklahoma – Bartlesville, Oklahoma
The Delaware Tribe is one of many contemporary tribes that descend from the Unami- and Munsee-speaking peoples of the Delaware and Hudson River valleys. The Unami and Munsee aboriginal homeland is situated within what are today the states of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, and Delaware.
The name collectively attributed to the descendants of such Unami and Munsee people is Delaware, yet the word Delaware is not of indigenous origin, nor did the Munsee and Unami speakers conceive of themselves as a united political organization until the eighteenth century. The term Delaware actually derives from the title given to Sir Thomas West or Lord de la Warr III, who was appointed the English governor of Virginia in 1610. When Captain Samuel Argall first explored what would later be named the Delaware Bay and River, he chose the name Delaware to honor the newly appointed Virginia governor. European colonists later applied the term in varied dialectical forms to reference the Unami-speaking groups of the middle Delaware River valley.
By the late eighteenth century the term had been extended to include all of the Unami-and Munsee-speaking peoples living in or removed from the Delaware and Hudson River valleys.