John Heckewelder spent decades as a Moravian missionary among the Lenape, or Delaware, in Pennsylvania and Ohio. He records their own account of the Dutch arriving at New York, their grievances against the Europeans, their rivalry with the Iroquois, and chapters on government, education, marriage, language and belief, in this 1881 edition annotated by William C. Reichel.
A sympathetic eighteenth-century witness to Lenape life, valued by historians and by James Fenimore Cooper, though coloured by its author’s loyalties. Download the free EPUB.