Cereal Agriculture

Production and Supply

External Trade

Ethnic Stratification

External Relations

Identification

Location

Topography and Geology

External Migration

Annual Cycle

Settlement Patterns

Bibliographies in Sources

Mats and Basketry

Clothing Manufacture

Bone, Horn, and Shell Technology

Woodworking

Nuclear Family

Rules of Descent

Clans

Social Relationships and Groups

Informal in-Group Justice

Real Property

Regulation of Marriage

Termination of Marriage

Residence

Polygamy

Population

Organization and Analysis of Results

Age Stratification

Speech

Acculturation and Culture Contact

General Character of Religion

Animism

Spirits and Gods

Religious Denominations

Theory of Disease

Magical and Mental Therapy

Shamans and Psychotherapists

Medical Therapy

Changes in Property Rights

Social Control

Techniques of Socialization

Material Not Relevant

Travel Services

Animal Transport

Division of Labor by Gender

Territorial Hierarchy

Towns

History

Ethos

Kinship Terminology

Collecting

Fowling

Hunting and Trapping

Fishing

Household

Organized Ceremonial

Dwellings

Linguistic Identification

Life and Death

Burial Practices and Funerals

Mourning

Eschatology

Purification and Atonement

Ingroup Antagonisms

Inheritance

CULTURE SUMMARY: DELAWARE

ETHNONYMS

ORIENTATION

HISTORY AND CULTURAL RELATIONS

SETTLEMENTS

ECONOMY

KINSHIP

MARRIAGE AND FAMILY

SOCIOPOLITICAL ORGANIZATION

RELIGION AND EXPRESSIVE CULTURE

SYNOPSIS

BELIEFS

RELIGIOUS PRACTITIONERS

CEREMONIES

MEDICINE

DEATH AND AFTERLIFE

IDENTIFICATION AND LOCATION

DEMOGRAPHY

LINGUISTIC AFFILIATION

SUBSISTENCE AND COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES

INDUSTRIAL ARTS

TRADE

DIVISION OF LABOR

LAND TENURE

KIN GROUPS

KIN TERMS

MARRIAGE

DOMESTIC UNIT

INHERITANCE

SOCIALIZATION

SOCIAL ORGANIZATION

POLITICAL ORGANIZATION

SOCIAL CONTROL

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The Delaware are a Native American group consisting of three smaller groups; the Lenape (or Unami), the Munsee, and &#x22;Jersies&#x22; (or Unalachtigo). The Delaware spoke an Algonquian language. Their aboriginal territory was in the vicinity of what is now known as the Delaware River in the states of New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Delaware. The Delaware now reside in communities in Ontario and Oklahoma. The Lenape were foragers with a seasonal pattern of band aggregation and dispersion. From the spring to the fall they caught different species of anadromous fish; in the winter, deer hunting was the principal activity. The Lenape bands were matrilineally related clusters of nuclear families, but with high interband mobility. Today, they are largely part of the American mainstream. the two largest groups of Delaware live in Oklahoma.

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