Peoples of the River Valleys: The Odyssey of the Delaware Indians

by Amy C. Schutt

Seventeenth-century Indians from the Delaware and lower Hudson valleys organized their lives around small-scale groupings of kin and communities. Living through epidemics, warfare, economic change, and physical dispossession, survivors from these peoples came together in new locations, especially the eighteenth-century Susquehanna and Ohio River valleys. In the process, they did not abandon kin and community orientations, but they increasingly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812220242
• ISBN13: 9780812220247
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"