For AdultsFor Adults

Bierhorst, John. Mythology of the Lenape: Guide & Texts. 1995. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press.

Bierhorst, John. The White Deer & Other Stories Told by the Lenape. 1995. New York: William Morrow & Company.

Bolton, R.P. Indian Life of Long Ago in the City of New York. 1971. New York: Crown Publishers. (First published in 1933 by J. Graham.)

Bolton, R.P. New York City in Indian Possession. 1920, 1975. New York: Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation.

Brown, James W. & Rita T. Kohn, editors. Long Journey Home: Oral Histories of Contemporary Delaware Indians. Forthcoming, 2008. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Kraft, Herbert C. The Lenape-Delaware Indian Heritage: 10,000 BC to AD 2000. 2001. Lenape Books. (Available from Lenape Lifeways, PO Box 239, Stanhope, NJ 07874.)

Myers, Albert Cook, editor. William Penn's Own Account of the Lenni Lenape or Delaware Indians. 1981. Wilmington, DE: The Middle Atlantic Press.

Olmstead, Earl P. Blackcoats Among the Delaware: David Zeisberger on the Ohio Frontier. 1991. Kent, Ohio: The Kent State University Press.

O'Meara, John. Delaware-English / English-Delaware Dictionary. 1996. Toronto, Ontario, & Buffalo, NY: University of Toronto Press. A dictionary of Munsee Delaware based on research carried out with Delaware speakers at Moraviantown.

Ruttenber, E.M. History of Indian Tribes of Hudson's River to 1700 and The History of Indian Tribes of Hudson's River, 1700 - 1850. 1992. Saugerties, NY: Hope Farm Press & Booktrader. First published in 1872.

Salomon, Julian Harris. Indians of the Lower Hudson Region: The Munsee. 1982. New City, NY: Historical Society of Rockland County.

Swan, Brian, editor. Algonquian Spirit: Contemporary Translations of the Algonquian Literatures of North America. 2005. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. Includes literature from the Lenape, Munsee, and other Algonquian-speaking peoples.

Wallace, Anthony F.C., King of the Delawares: Teedyuscung, 1700-1763. 1949, 1990. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press.

Wallace, A.W. Indians in Pennsylvania. Second edition, revised. 2000. Harrisburg, PA: The Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission. (First published in 1961.)

Weslager, C.A. The Delawares: A Critical Bibliography. 1978. Bloomington: Indiana Univeristy Press. Published for the Newberry Library (Chicago).

Weslager, C.A. The Delaware Indians: A History. 1972, 1989. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.

Weslager, C.A. Magic Medicines of the Indians. 1973. Somerset, NJ: The Middle Atlantic Press. 1974. New York: New American Library. (Also published in soft cover by New American Library/Signet in 1974.)

For Children


Grumet, Robert. The Lenapes. 1989. New York: Chelsea House Publishers. Ages 12 and up.

Harrington, M.R. The Indians of New Jersey: Dickon Among the Lenapes. 1938, 1966. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. Ages 12 and up.

Kraft, Herbert C. The Indians of Lenapehoking. 1988. South Orange, NJ: Seton Hall University Museum. Ages 12 and up.

Kraft, Herbert C. The Lenape or Delaware Indians. Revised edition, 1996. South Orange, NJ: Seton Hall University Museum. Ages. 8 - 12. (Available from Lenape Lifeways, PO Box 239, Stanhope, NJ 07874)

Miller, Jay. The Delaware. 1994. Chicago: Childrens Press, New True Book series. Ages 6 - 10.

Oestreicher, David M. The Algonquian of New York. 2003. New York: PowerKids Press, a division of The Rosen Publishing Group. About the Algonquian-speaking peoples of what is now New York State. Ages 12 and up.

Van Laan, Nancy. Rainbow Crow: A Lenape Tale. Illustrated by Beatriz Vidal. 1989. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Dragonfly Books division. Ages 4 - 9.

Wilker, Josh. The Lenape Indians. 1994. New York: Chelsea House Publishers. Ages 8 - 12.

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