History, Manners, and Customs of the Indian Nations Who Once Inhabited Pennsylvania and the Neighbouring States John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder, Penn State University Libraries, Penn State University Libraries.

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Book

Author/Creator:

Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, Author.

, Penn State University Libraries, Author.

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funder.

Language:

English

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1 online resource (472 p.)

Place of Publication:

University Park, PA Penn State University Press, [2025]

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Heckewelder John Gottlieb Ernestus : John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder (1743-1823) was an English native, a cooper, and a Moravian missionary. He assisted at several treaties during the French and Indian War and worked as a postmaster, a justice of the peace, and an associate justice of the court of common pleas in Ohio and Pennsylvania. In the latter part of his life, he was devoted to literary work, and became known for his research and works on Native Americans.John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder (1743-1823) was an English native, a cooper, and a Moravian missionary. He assisted at several treaties during the French and Indian War and worked as a postmaster, a justice of the peace, and an associate justice of the court of common pleas in Ohio and Pennsylvania. In the latter part of his life, he was devoted to literary work, and became known for his research and works on Native Americans.

Summary:

First published by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania in 1818, History, Manners, and Customs of the Indian Nations provides an account of the Lenni Lenape and other tribes in the mid-Atlantic region, looking at their history and relations with other tribes and settlers, as well as their spiritual beliefs, government and politics, education, language, social institutions, dress, food, and other customs. The text, written by the Reverend John Heckewelder, a Moravian missionary based in Ohio and Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, includes the author's observations, anecdotes, and advice, preserving not only his knowledge about the Indian nations in the eighteenth century but also his perspective, as a missionary and settler, on Native Americans and the often-fraught relationships between the tribes and European settlers. This version of the text, published in 1876, contains an introduction and notes by the Reverend William C. Reichel as well as a glossary of Lenape words and phrases and letters between the author and the then-president of the American Philosophical Society concerning the study of the Indian nations and their languages.

Contents:

Frontmatter

INTRODUCTION

DEDICATION

CONTENTS

PART I. AN ACCOUNT OF THE HISTORY, MANNERS, AND CUSTOMS OF THE INDIAN NATIONS WHO ONCE INHABITED PENNSYLVANIA AND THE NEIGHBOURING STATES

CHAPTER I. HISTORICAL TRADITIONS OF THE INDIANS

CHAPTER II. INDIAN ACCOUNT OF THE FIRST ARRIVAL OF THE DUTCH AT NEW YORK ISLAND

CHAPTER III. INDIAN RELATIONS OF THE CONDUCT OF THE EUROPEANS TOWARDS THEM

CHAPTER IV. SUBSEQUENT FATE OF THE LENAPE AND THEIR KINDRED TRIBES

CHAPTER V. THE IROQUOIS

CHAPTER VI. GENERAL CHARACTER OF THE INDIANS

CHAPTER VII. GOVERNMENT

CHAPTER VIII. EDUCATION

CHAPTER IX. LANGUAGES

CHAPTER X. SIGNS AND HIEROGLYPHICS

CHAPTER XI. ORATORY

CHAPTER XII. METAPHORICAL EXPRESSIONS

CHAPTER XIII. INDIAN NAMES

CHAPTER XIV. INTERCOURSE WITH EACH OTHER

CHAPTER XV. POLITICAL MANCEUVRES

CHAPTER XVI. MARRIAGE AND TREATMENT OF THEIR WIVES

CHAPTER XVII. RESPECT FOR THE AGED

CHAPTER XVIII. PRIDE AND GREATNESS OF MIND

CHAPTER XIX. WARS AND THE CAUSES WHICH LEAD TO THEM

CHAPTER XX. MANNER OF SURPRISING THEIR ENEMIES

CHAPTER XXI. PEACE MESSENGERS.

CHAPTER XXII. TREATlES.

CHAPTER XXIII. GENERAL OBSERVATIONS OF THE INDIANS ON THE WHITE PEOPLE

CHAPTER XXIV. FOOD AND COOKERY

CHAPTER XXV. DRESS, AND ORNAMENTING OF THEIR PERSONS

CHAPTER XXVI. DANCES, SONGS, AND SACRIFICES

CHAPTER XXVII. SCALPING-WHOOPS OR YELLS

PRISONERS.

CHAPTER XXVIII. BODILY CONSTITUTION AND DISEASES

CHAPTER XXIX. REMEDIES

CHAPTER XXX. PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS

CHAPTER XXXI. DOCTORS OR JUGGLERS.

CHAPTER XXXII. SUPERSTITION

CHAPTER XXXIII. INITIATION OF BOYS.

CHAPTER XXXIV. INDIAN MYTHOLOGY

CHAPTER XXXV. INSANITY - SUICIDE

CHAPTER XXXVI. DRUNKENNESS

CHAPTER XXXVII. FUNERALS

CHAPTER XXXVIII. FRIENDSIIIP

CHAPTER XXXIX. PREACHERS AND PROPHETS

CHAPTER XL. SHORT NOTICE OF THE INDIAN CHIEFS, TAMANEND AND TADEUSKUND

CHAPTER XLI. COMPUTATION OF TIME-ASTRONOMICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL KNOWLEDGE

CHAPTER XLII. GENERAL OBSERVATIONS AND ANECDOTES

CHAPTER XLIII. ADVICE TO TRAVELLERS

CHAPTER XLIV. THE INDIANS AND THE WHITES COMPARED

CONCLUSION

PART II. CORRESPONDENCE RESPECTING THE INDIAN LANGUAGES

LETTER I. MR. DUPONCEAU TO MR. HECKEWELDER

LETTER II. DR. C. WISTAR TO MR. HECKEWELDER.

LETTER III. MR. HECKEWELDER TO DR. WISTAR

LETTER IV. FROM THE SAME TO THE SAME

LETTER V. FROM MR. DUPONCEAU TO DR. WISTAR

LETTER VI. FROM DR. WISTAR TO MR. HECKEWELDER

LETTER VIII. MR. DUPONCEAU TO MR. HECKEWELDER.

LETTER IX. FROM THE SAME TO THE SAME

LETTER X. MR. HECKEWELDER TO MR. DUPONCEAU.

LETTER XI. FROM MR. HECKEWELDER

LETTER XII. TO MR. HECKEWELDER.

LETTER XIII. TO MR. HECKEWELDER.

LETTER XIV. FROM MR. HE.CKEWELDER.

LETTER XV. FROM THE SAME

LETTER XVI. TO MR. HECKEWELDER

LETTER XVII. TO THE SAME

LETTER XVIII.FROM MR. HECKEWELDER

LETTER XIX. FROM THE SAME

LETTER XX. TO MR. HECKEWELDER

LETTER XXI. FROM MR. HECKEWELDER

LETTER XXII. FROM THE SAME

LETTER XXIII. TO MR. HECKEWELDER.

LETTER XXIV. FROM MR. HECKEWELDER.

LETTER XXV. TO MR. HECKEWELDER

LETTER XXVI. FROM MR. HECKEWELDER

ERRATA IN PART II.

PART III. WORDS, PHRASES, AND SHORT DIALOGUE

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ISBN:

0-271-10088-5