them in their dialect, in the which they occupied, and in

differed from

in consultation with others the rivers and Col.

distinctly

The

Mobegans were an exclusively Eastern Connecticut tribe and recognized.

as

Hcckeiuelder.

OF HUDSON'S RIPER. Men of the

or

East. 1

Their

from

extended

territory

the

KatskiK mountains south to the Potomac, occupying the region watered by the Hudson, the Delaware, 2 the Susquehanna and

The site of their ancient council-fire was at

the Potomac.

what is now Philadelphia, on the bank of the Lenapewihituk, or Delaware river Lenape, the term given to themselves, and ituk a geographical equivalent for the English word domain or ;

territory.

According to tradition the Lennl Lenapes resided

handed down from their ancestors, for

many centuries in a very distant American continent. Hav

country, in the western part of the

ing resolved to move eastward, they set out in a body in search of a new home ; and after a long journey and many nights

encampment, (i. e., halts of one year at a place), they reached the Namaesl Sipee (Mississippi), where they fell in with another nation, the Mengwe, or Iroquois, who had also emigrated from a distant country for the same purpose. The region east of the Mississippi was occupied by the Allegewi (Alleghany), a

powerful and partially civilized people, having numerous large towns defended by Regular fortifications and entrenchments. 5

" These

people are known and called

by all the western, northern and some of the southern nations by the name of Wappanachki, which the Europeans have corrupted into Apenaki, Openagi, All these Abenaquis, and Abenakis. names, however differently written, and improperly understood by authors, point to one and the same people, the Lenape, who are by this compound word called People at the rising of the Sun, or as we would say Eastlanders ; and are