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- noun Plural form of
Delaware .
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Examples
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These Native Americans became known as the Delawares to the settlers.
Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve, New Jersey 2007
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"The path between the Hurons and the Delawares is short and it is open; let her be sent to my squaws, if she gives trouble to my brother".
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"The path between the Hurons and the Delawares is short, and it is open; let her be sent to my squaws, if she gives trouble to my brother."
The Last of the Mohicans A Narrative of 1757 James Fenimore Cooper 1820
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"The path between the Hurons and the Delawares is short and it is open; let her be sent to my squaws, if she gives trouble to my brother."
The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 James Fenimore Cooper 1820
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Lenape is the language the Native Americans known as the Delawares spoke.
Archive 2009-10-01 2009
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Lenape is the language the Native Americans known as the Delawares spoke.
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The Delawares are the grandfather of nations, the parent stock from which have proceeded the many tribes who roam over the woods of this vast island.
Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 (of 3) James Athearn Jones
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"Now let it be proved, in the face of this tribe of Delawares, which is the better man", cried the scout, tapping the butt of his piece with that finger which had pulled so many fatal triggers.
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The head of a warrior needs no other shelter than a sky without clouds; and the Delawares are the enemies, and not the friends of the Yengeese.
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"It is so; but they are now bright and dull; for the Yengeese are dead, and the Delawares are our neighbors".
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