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OUR FOLK
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Welcome to this Eastern Woodlands world of assimilation;
Where we meet at Powwow time, without hesitation. Up and down this coast, from South to North; We mingle unseen - but occasionally step forth. |
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In this area of mid-Atlantic Coastal Region folk; We call ourselves the "Nanticoke". Although expedient alliances have distorted history regarding our kin; Studies and stories place us among the wide-spread Algonquin. "Lenape" and"Lenni-Lenape" are also terms some use. Such terms were in use before the European abuse. Lenni-Lenape means "original people" in the language of their day. "Grandfathers" of the Algonquin people described themselves that way. |
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Exploring Europeans called the Lewes locals "Siconese";
Because they lived in villages along "Sickoneysincks Creek" near Cape Henlopen. There followed a period of much land groping; Resulting in the Siconese failing with their coping. So the name remains simply as a kind of token. Certainly today's Lewes population believes: There are no longer any existing "Siconese". |
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By logic and language, we are the "Nanticoke"
Translated from the Algonquin: "Nentego or Nantiquak". "People of the tidewater" are those of whom the language spoke. In English we often, simply say: "Our folk". |
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Of course the newcomers called us "Indians", mind you; Even though, as we know, the term has never rung true. Sailors from the West sailed eastward toward India; But our Turtle Island continent failed to let them through. Yet, the term "Indian" has stuck like glue. |
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Today, in these Eastern Woodlands and on these Mid-Atlantic shores, do such so-called Indians, in ever expanded - mixed and remixed groups - really exist? Or have they been assimilated to the point of invisibility? - maybe even extinction?
Well now! . . . (with an active drum roll, please) . . . and the answer is: Yes! Yes, there is still a genetic as well as a psychological imprint of generally termed "Indian" people on these Mid-Atlantic shores and in these Eastern Woodlands. |
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EASTERN WOODLANDS MEMORIES |
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In thoughts, in memories, in whispered comments;
in discovered connections and in deathbed revelations, there is an insistence upon existence. So what if there are no buffalo here in these Eastern Woodlands! The people remain . . . ! |
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"N O B U F F A L O" Still, to be found, here and there, In groups large and small. All gathered to say: "Recognize us this way. We exist after all". |
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Thus . . .
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"The
Dance Continues " |
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The ones that matter most are the children. They are the true human beings.
Lakota proverb:
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Under the American flag
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