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Show CHAPTER XI SOUTHERN TRIBES OP THE EASTERN WOOD-LANDS ( 1600- 1900) CENTRING about the valley of the Delaware River and occupying southeastern New York, eastern Pennsylvania, and practically all of New Jersey, were the powerful Delaware or Lenap6. They formed one of the largest and strongest of Algonquian tribes and were able to withstand for many years the attacks of the Iroquois, who bordered them on the north and west. They were finally forced to give way, however, and, leaving their original home, took refuge in the valley of the Susquehanna and upper Ohio. With the settlement of Pennsylvania and New Jersey the Delaware naturally came into close contact with the whites, and it was with this tribe that Penn made his famou § _$ I£ aty in 1682. The connection between the Delaware and their kindred of the New England states was made by the Mohegan, who occupied the lower Hudson. Manhattan Island, their farthest southern haunt, was never anythihg more than a hunting- ground for Mohegan bands, the nearest 163 |
