During the French and English war the Delawares
joined the French. In 1776 they joined the Federal
cause and fought with us in the Revolutionary war.
In their relations with Penn's colonists 11 they showed "
to quote Dr. Brinton, "a sense of honor and regard for
pledges equal at least to that of the white race." From
1782 to 1795 there was a bitter war between the white
people and the Lenape owing to the desire of the
whites to possess the Indian lands, which resulted in
three cruel massacres of Christian Indians, and of the
removal of the Lenape, first to Ohio, next to Kansas,
and last to the Indian Territory, "In this long con-
test," as Dr. Brinton says, "the history of the relations
If the white race with the Lenape is not one calculated to reflect glory upon the superior civilization and
Christianity of the white race." In the war of 1863-65,
one-half of the adult population of the Lenape
officered by their own men were in the volunteer service of the United States. "No State in the Union
furnished so many men for our armies from the same
ratio of population as did the Lenape nation." The
old men, women and children worked the farms and
while the men were away fighting for the Union their
white neighbors stole from them $20,000 worth of
stock.
