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Delaware Indian News The Official Publication of the Delaware Tribe of Indians Delaware Tribe of Indians 5100 Tuxedo Blvd. Bartlesville, OK 74006 RETURN SERVICE REQUESTED Lënapeí Pampil January 2016 ▪ Volume 39, Issue No. I Fifth Annual Lenapeowsi Youth Christmas Party n December 19, 2015, the story of need in our community Sponsors for this year’s event OFifth Annual Lenapeowsi to come together for our young were: Cherokee Nation Busi- Foundation Youth Christmas people. After each child visited nesses, Delaware Tribe of Indi- Party fed over three-hundred Santa and obtained a gift, we had ans and employees, Delaware people and provided gifts to over a stomp and social dance. Mem- Trust Board, Delaware Nation, one-hundred and twenty Native bers from various other Tribes, Grand Lake Nutrition, and American children. Each year such as the Euchee and Shawnee last year’s Native Voices Ris- since the inception of this event, joined in with us. ing grant. Volunteers included: the participation doubles. Mi- The Foundation Board of Leslie Jerden, Andrea Maria, chelle Holley and Jason David Directors, Nicky Kay Mi- Cece Runnels, Tara and Haley Jones have worked many untold chael, PhD, Chairwoman; John Madden, Jason and Vicki Road- hours to assure these children Sumpter, Vice Chair; Michelle Block Norris, John Randoll, receive a good meal and present Holley, Secretary; Jason David Tara Beasley, David Frenchman, this Christmas season. The party Jones, Treasurer; Director, Levi and all the youth who pitched in began in the first years with a few Randoll; Honorary Elders, Kay at any point something needed volunteers who wrapped presents Anderson and Nancy Sumpter completing.■ all night and thirty youth. Today, would like to thank every spon- the increasing numbers tell us a sor and each of the volunteers. BEGINNING SUNDAY, JANUARY 10, 2016 THE DELAWARE TRIBE OF INDIANS’ CULTURAL PRESERVATION COMMITTEE WILL HOST AN AFTERNOON OF DRUMMING AND DEMONSTRATIONS ON VARIOUS OTHER CULTURAL ACTIVITIES AT THE DELAWARE TRIBAL CENTER THESE EVENTS WILL BE HELD EVERY OTHER SUNDAY. EACH OF THE SUNDAYS, WE WILL BEGIN AT 3 PM AND THEN AT ABOUT 5 PM WE WILL SHARE IN A POTLUCK MEAL. THE CULTURAL PRESERVATION COMMITTEE WILL PROVIDE THE MEAT AT EACH OF THE POTLUCKS. PLEASE MARK YOUR CALENDARS FOR THE FOLLOWING SUNDAY DATES: JANUARY 10, JANUARY 24, FEBRUARY 7, FEBRUARY 21, MARCH 6, MARCH 20, AND APRIL 3. FUTURE DATES WILL BE POSTED IN THE NEXT EDITION OF THE DIN. PLEASE ENCOURAGE ALL OF OUR YOUNGSTERS TO COME OUT AND PARTICIPATE. THE ONLY WAY TO SAVE OUR CULTURE IS TO INVOLVE OUR YOUTH. ADDITIONALLY, WE WANT ALL OF OUR ADULTS WITH KNOWLEDGE AND TALENT IN THE LENAPE CULTURE TO COME OUT AND SHARE THIS KNOWLEDGE WITH EVERYONE. DELAWARE TRIBAL BUILDING FORSYTHE HALL BARTLESVILLE, OKLAHOMA Page 2 Lënapeí Pampil (Delaware Indian News) January 2016 From the Desk of Chief Chet Brooks the Six Nation Confederacy, for tive in nature and the Delaware to keep the fires burning and the control of the Ohio valley, took were moved again, this time to music of their people alive pre- its toll on the tribe. As the Dutch, lands within the Cherokee Nation served Delaware culture through wish all tribal members a hap- English and French were compet- of Indian Territory. the founding of annual gatherings py and prosperous 2016. I ing to form alliances with tribes Prior to Oklahoma statehood, such as pow-wows and stomp On November the 8th our throughout the northeast, the Le- the Delaware people, as all other dances. Tribal elder Numerous Tribal Council met to initiate nape grappled with the Europe- tribes in the territory, were forced Fall Leaf is recognized as one of a strategic plan. This meeting ans and neighboring tribes while to accept the breakup of all com- the leaders of the day, who start- was facilitated by former Osage simultaneously dealing with the munal land holdings by way of ed the Delaware Pow wow in the Chief Jim Gray. We are attach- catastrophic impacts of disease the allotment of tribal lands. This early 1960s. This pow wow con- ing that plan in this edition of the which devastated the population. paved the way for Oklahoma tinues as one of the most beloved Delaware Indian News because The Delaware hold many dis- statehood and for even more dif- and treasured annual pow wows we want tribal members’ input tinctions in the founding of this ficulty, as all native people lost in all of Indian Country. into working that plan. I request country, chief among them is their tribal governments, and as In those years from the 1970s all tribal members to read the being the first tribe to enter into assimilation policies of the U.S. through the 1990s, the Delaware plan and give any input, espe- a treaty with the newly formed sought to kill the Indian to save Tribal government flourished cially regarding the five items of Wanishi United States of America. the man. With daily assaults while managing federal grants consensus and Chief Gray’s con- Chief Chet Brooks upon the preservation of Dela- and contracts which provided clusions near the end of his sum- [email protected]■ The Great Movement to ware culture, language and land, much needed services and jobs mary. I am interested in knowing Survive the Delawares also had to survive for their people. your responses. As the Grandfather tribe began being within the jurisdiction of Without a clear roadmap to to deal with a future after their the Cherokee Nation and subject exercise independent sover- Delaware Tribal Council move into the Ohio Valley, in- to Cherokee influence over any eignty in the 20th century, the ternal splits occurred as spiritual, direct relationship with the U.S. Delaware co-existed with the Strategic Planning Session economic and political differenc- Despite this condition, the Cherokee despite the on-again/ November 8, 2015, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. es became too divisive to keep Delaware people still contin- off-again federal recognition. In the tribe together. Even when ued to remain a vibrant, distinct the years that followed, Federal Jane Phillips Hospital, Bartlesville, OK these divisions forced bands to and prosperous tribe. Much like court challenges often occurred go in different directions, each other tribes during this era, Del- between the Delaware Tribe and Looking Back In the era of early contact with band carried with it, a shared his- aware cultural practices went the Cherokee Nation who ex- the European explorers, the Del- Like many tribal nations in the tory, culture, and a story that is underground and issues such as pressed jurisdiction over Dela- aware people were estimated to U.S., the Delaware have a his- being told to this day. language preservation and cer- ware independence within its be 15,000 strong, and were first tory that is clear and verifiable in As the story of the Delaware emonial dances were no longer 14 county jurisdictional area in recorded living near the tip of its existence as a distinct people Tribe of Indians continued in the province of the tribal govern- NE Oklahoma. This legal battle Manhattan Island by the Italian among the family of tribal na- the Ohio Valley, the Battle of ment. During this time in history, continued until 2005 when the explorer Giovanni da Verraz- tions. Starting in its pre-Colum- Fallen Timbers in 1795, and the Delaware culture was preserved federal courts ruled against Dela- zano. bian era, the reverence for the subsequent Treaty of Greenville, by families within the tribe. ware federal recognition. This Lenape (Delaware) among other An Era of Trade, Treaty, caused the tribe to move again These families who continued meant no exercise of Federal rec- tribes is often expressed by using Disease and Warfare further west. As western expan- the title “The Grandfather Tribe,” sion continued throughout the In the centuries that followed, the an acknowledgement that carries 19th century, the Delaware Tribe Lenape executed many agree- on to this day. continued to travel west in order ments with the Europeans such to establish a homeland. By the as the treaty with William Penn 1860s they were settled in their in 1682. This treaty further es- last reservation, near the Kansas tablished the Delaware as a re- River, in central Kansas. liable trading partner, with a Despite their success in estab- recognized jurisdiction, in areas lishing a homeland in Kansas, throughout the northeastern part pressure to move to Indian Ter- of the United States. ritory continued to plague the As competition for land and Tribe’s efforts to survive. political influence grew, with more European settlements mov- Life in Indian Territory, ing into their ancestral areas, a Cherokee Nation and Fed- time of simultaneous war and eral Recognition peace for the Tribe came about The post-Civil War treaties with for the Delaware. Warfare with the Delaware were mostly puni- January 2016 Lënapeí Pampil (Delaware Indian News) Page 3 ognition could occur for the Dela- ment, but rather a summation of history. It is a character trait that in the way it is administered. We jurisdiction this also limits our ware Tribe without the consent of the points expressed in our stra- has helped us survive in our an- have an extremely fair Chief that economic opportunity to build a the Cherokee Nation. In 2008, a tegic planning session. Any omis- cient past as well as our recent gives our staff plenty of room to tax base of any kind. Memorandum of Understanding sions of historic facts that are part past. We have a talented tribal grow professionally and every Chief Brooks: We’ve lost that between the Cherokee Nation and of the official record are not to be membership that can come back member of the Tribal Council to historically brave trait that used to the Delaware Tribe restored the considered an editorial judgment and build the Delaware Tribe be heard.

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