A more interesting people than the Pawnee is the Delaware, whose oldest tradition derives him from the region west of the Mississippi. Thence the tribe migrated to the Atlantic shores where they took the title of" Lenne Lenape," or men, and the neighboring races in respect called them uncle. William Penn and his followers found this remnant of the great Algonquin confederacy in a depressed state subjugated by the Five Nations, they had been compelled to take the name of Iroquois Squaws. In those days they felt an awe of the white man and looked upon him as a something godlike. Since their return to the West their spirit has revived, their war path has reached through Utah to the Pacific Ocean to Hudson s Bay on the north and southward to the heart of Mexico Their present abodes are principally near Fort Leavenworth upon the Missouri and in the Choctaw territory near Fort Arbuckle upon the eastern Colorado or Canadian River. They are familiar with the languages manners and customs of their pale faced neighbors, they are so feared as rifle shots that a host of enemies will fly from a few of their warriors and they mostly lead a vagrant life, the wandering Jews of the West, as traders, hunters, and trappers among the other Indian tribes. For 185 years the Shawnees have been associated with them in intermarriage, yet they are declining in numbers; here and there some are lost one by one in travel or battle, they have now dwindled to about a hundred warriors and the extinction of the tribe appears imminent. As hunters and guides they are preferred to all others by the whites and it is believed that they would make as formidable partisan soldiers as any on this continent. When the government of the United States, after the fashion of France and England, begins to raise Irregular Native Corps the loss of the Delawares will be regretted
(The City of the Saints)