| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 39.2

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Book Review

People of the River Valleys: The Odyssey of the Delaware Indians. By Amy C. Schutt. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. 250 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. $45.00.)

During the colonial period, the Delawares, or the Lenapes, as the loosely connected Algonquian communities originally located in the Hudson and Delaware valleys called themselves, moved several times and showed up in the documentary record under a variety of names. Writing about them thus presents a challenge. Amy C. Schutt bravely accepts this challenge and ably demonstrates how the Lenapes shifted locations westward amid epidemics, warfare, and Euro-American encroachment, and, in the process, developed a sense of themselves as a people. By the 1770s, when the bulk of Lenapes had settled in the Ohio Valley, they conceived of themselves as "Grandfathers" to all Native peoples, a role that stemmed from being the first to negotiate with William Penn, from holding multiple alliances with other Natives, and from maintaining peaceful relations among Natives and between Natives and Euro-Americans.

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