Cause for dissension--Washington's crossing and the Battle of Trenton--Battle of the Brandywine--Paoli massacre--Battle of Germantown--Destruction of Fort Mifflin--Winter at Valley Forge--Hospital at Yellow Springs--Near disaster at Barren Hill--Free and independent states,
Lutheranism in Bucks County, 1734-1934 : with a restudy of the Indians of eastern United States to more definitely prove Lutheran missions among the Lenape of the Delaware Valley, 1638-1740
The land and earliest Americans -- The Paleo-Indian hunters -- The archaic Indian hunters, fishers, and gatherers -- The woodland period, horticultural village life -- The Shenks Ferry Indians -- The Susquehannock Indians, trade and warfare.
4 p. ø., 5-192 p. illus. (incl. ports) col. plates. 24 cm.
Series
Publications of the Pennsylvania historical commission.
Notes
At head of title: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
"Authorities cited": p. 179-182.
Summary
" An intensive study of the Big House Ceremony, one of the Paramount ceremonies of the Delaware Indians for the fulfillment of obligations to the host of spiritual beings comprising their cosmography. The author, a noted ethnologist, gives a historical resume of the Big House Ceremony as it existed in the 17th and 18th centuries, and its distribution among neighboring tribes, where it appeared in various attenuated forms. A good part of this source consists of the original native text supplied by the author's primary informant Wi-tapano'xwe (War Eagle), which is then given a free translation by the author with the thought in mind of preserving the order, emphasis, terms of thought, and wording characteristic of native speech. Abundant explanatory footnotes augment the English translation." [ehrafworldcultures.yale.edu]
Anthropological series of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, no. 1
Summary
"The very first men we know in the Pittsylvania country roamed these hills and valleys a staggeringly long time ago. Egypt's earliest civilization had not yet begun to develop the art of making pottery, and on the northern shores of the Mediterranean the earliest farmers would not begin to plant crops for centuries, perhaps millennia. Those who are interested in this period, and others, will find a world of good reading in Foundations of Pennsylvania Prehistory which contains over six hundred pages of what has been written by experts in the field for thepast forty years." [from a review of this book by George Swetnam in 1972]
History of the Indian tribes of North America, with biographical sketches and anecdotes of the principal chiefs, embellished with one hundred and twenty portraits from the Indian gallery in the Department of War at Washington
