History, Manners, and Customs of the Indian Nations Who Once Inhabited Pennsylvania and the Neighbouring StatesFront matterReading editionChapter navigation85 reading sectionsGo to chapterChoose a chapter…Front matterPublications OF THE Historical Society of Pennsylvania. HISTORY, MANNERS, AND CUSTOMS OF THE INDIAN NATIONS.INTRODUCTION. BY THE EDITOR.DEDICATION TO CASPAR WISTAR, M.D., PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, ETC.INTRODUCTIONPART I. HISTORY, MANNERS, AND CUSTOMS OF THE INDIAN NATIONS, WHO ONCE INHABITED PENNSYLVANIA AND THE NEIGHBOURING STATES.History, Manners, and Customs OF THE INDIAN NATIONS. CHAPTER I. HISTORICAL TRADITIONS OF THE INDIANS.Chapter II · INDIAN ACCOUNT OF THE FIRST ARRIVAL OF THE DUTCH AT NEW YORK ISLAND.Chapter III · INDIAN RELATIONS OF THE CONDUCT OF THE EUROPEANS TOWARDS THEM.Chapter IV · SUBSEQUENT FATE OF THE LENAPE AND THEIR KINDRED TRIBES.Chapter V · THE IROQUOIS.Chapter VI · GENERAL CHARACTER OF THE INDIANS.Chapter VII · GOVERNMENT.Chapter VIII · EDUCATION.Chapter IX · LANGUAGES.Chapter X · SIGNS AND HIEROGLYPHICS.Chapter XI · ORATORY.Chapter XII · METAPHORICAL EXPRESSIONS.Chapter XIII · INDIAN NAMES.Chapter XIV · INTERCOURSE WITH EACH OTHER.Chapter XV · POLITICAL MANŒUVRES.Chapter XVI · MARRIAGE AND TREATMENT OF THEIR WIVES.Chapter XVII · RESPECT FOR THE AGED.Chapter XVIII · PRIDE AND GREATNESS OF MIND.Chapter XIX · WARS AND THE CAUSES WHICH LEAD TO THEM.Chapter XX · MANNER OF SURPRISING THEIR ENEMIES.Chapter XXI · PEACE MESSENGERS.Chapter XXII · TREATIES.Chapter XXIII · GENERAL OBSERVATIONS OF THE INDIANS ON THE WHITE PEOPLE.Chapter XXIV · FOOD AND COOKERY.Chapter XXV · DRESS, AND ORNAMENTING OF THEIR PERSONS.Chapter XXVI · DANCES, SONGS, AND SACRIFICES.Chapter XXVII · SCALPING—WHOOPS OR YELLS—PRISONERS.Chapter XXVIII · BODILY CONSTITUTION AND DISEASES.Chapter XXIX · REMEDIES.Chapter XXX · PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS.Chapter XXXI · DOCTORS OR JUGGLERS.Chapter XXXII · SUPERSTITION.Chapter XXXIII · INITIATION OF BOYS.Chapter XXXIV · INDIAN MYTHOLOGY.Chapter XXXV · INSANITY—SUICIDE.Chapter XXXVI · DRUNKENNESS.Chapter XXXVII · FUNERALS.Chapter XXXVIII · FRIENDSHIP.Chapter XXXIX · PREACHERS AND PROPHETS.Chapter XL · SHORT NOTICE OF THE INDIAN CHEIFS, TAMANEND AND TADEUSKUND.Chapter XLI · COMPUTATION OF TIME—ASTROMICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL KNOWLEDGE.Chapter XLII · GENERAL OBSERVATIONS AND ANECDOTES.Chapter XLIII · ADVICE TO TRAVELLERS.Chapter XLIV · THE INDIANS AND THE WHITES COMPARED.CONCLUSION.ERRATA IN PART IPART II. A CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE REV. JOHN HECKEWELDER. OF BETHLEHEM, AND PETER S. DUPONCEAU, ESQ., CORRESPONDING SECRETARY OF THE HISTORICAL AND LITERARY COMMITTEE OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, RESPECTING THE Languages of the American Indians.INTRODUCTIONCORRESPONDENCE RESPECTING THE INDIAN LANGUAGES. LETTER I. MR. DUPONCEAU TO MR. HECKEWELDER.LETTER II. DR. C. WISTAR TO MR. HECKEWELDER.LETTER III. MR. HECKEWELDER TO DR. WISTAR.LETTER IV. FROM THE SAME TO THE SAME.LETTER V. FROM MR. DUPONCEAU TO DR. WISTAR.LETTER VI. FROM DR. WISTAR TO MR. HECKEWELDER.LETTER VII. MR. HECKEWELDER TO MR. DUPONCEAU.LETTER VIII. MR. DUPONCEAU TO MR. HECKEWELDER.LETTER IX. FROM THE SAME TO THE SAME.LETTER X. MR. HECKEWELDER TO MR. DUPONCEAU.LETTER XI. FROM MR. HECKEWELDER.LETTER XII. TO MR. HECKEWELDER.LETTER XIII. TO MR. HECKEWELDER.LETTER XIV. FROM MR. HECKEWELDER.LETTER XV. FROM THE SAME.LETTER XVI. TO MR. HECKEWELDER.LETTER XVII. TO THE SAME.LETTER XVIII. FROM MR. HECKEWELDER.LETTER XIX. FROM THE SAME.LETTER XX. TO MR. HECKEWELDER.LETTER XXI. FROM MR. HECKEWELDER.LETTER XXII. FROM THE SAME.LETTER XXIII. TO MR. HECKEWELDER.LETTER XXIV. FROM MR. HECKEWELDER.LETTER XXV. TO MR. HECKEWELDER.LETTER XXVI. FROM MR. HECKEWELDER.ERRATA IN PART II.ADDITIONAL ERRATUM IN PART I.PART III. WORDS, PHRASES, AND SHORT DIALOGUES, IN THE LANGUAGE OF THE LENNI LENAPE, OR DELAWARE INDIANS. BY THE REV. JOHN HECKEWELDER, OF BETHLEHEM.WORDS, PHRASES, ETC., OF THE LENNI LENAPE, OR DELAWARE INDIANS.INDEX.Beginning of this editionNext chapter →Publications OF THE Historical Society of Pennsylvania. HISTORY, MANNERS, AND CUSTOMS OF THE INDIAN NATIONS.All chapters and sections (85)Opening pagesFront matterOther sectionsPublications OF THE Historical Society of Pennsylvania. HISTORY, MANNERS, AND CUSTOMS OF THE INDIAN NATIONS.INTRODUCTION. 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