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Old religion among the Delawaresarticle 1997 • Miller, Jay
Delaware • North America > Eastern Woodlands
This article is a rebuttal to Anthony F.C. Wallace's argument that the Big House (Gamwing) ceremony of the Delaware was an 1805 'new religion' among these people. A '… review of his sources, native testimony, and continuing cultural import suggests i...Delaware personhoodarticle 1991 • Miller, Jay
Delaware • North America > Eastern Woodlands
Delaware conception of the 'person' (AWEN) has remained viable among older speakers of this language, both living or recently deceased in Oklahoma, and can be projected into the past using ethnohistoric and ethnographic sources. Delaware personhood i...Tillamookessay 1990 • Seaburg, William R. & Miller, Jay
Tillamook • North America > Northwest Coast and California
This brief overview of Tillamook culture touches upon such topics as technology, clothing and adornment, life cycle events, subsistence, political organization, shamans, mythology, and religion....