Lenape materials, American Philosophical Society Historical and Literary Committee, American Indian Vocabulary Collection

Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware
Delaware | English | Munsee
1792, 1819, and undated
Bromley, Walter | Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823 | Holm, John Campanius | Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 | Madison, James, 1751-1836
Linguistics
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Vocabularies
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The Lenape (or "Delaware") materials in this collection consist of manuscript vocabularies listed in the finding aid as items 17, 20, 21, 22a, 22b, 35, and 37. These include a word list recorded by James Madison, sometimes attributed to Thomas Jefferson, from unnamed Lenape speakers at the Brotherton Indian Reservation ("Edgpiiluk") in New Jersey in 1792. Also included is a comparative word list by Heckewelder and Du Ponceau's translation of a word list recorded by Campanius.
American Philosophical Society Historical and Literary Committee, American Indian Vocabulary Collection Mss.497.V85