Tag: Delaware

  • “With his acting experience and technical know-how, Young Deer soon advanced to one of Pathé’s leading filmmakers. His Indian identity served him well: no one in the cast or crew at that time would have taken orders from a black man.”

  • C. A. Weslager’s “Delaware’s Forgotten Folk” chronicles the history of the Nanticoke Indians and the Cheswold Moors, from John Smith’s first encounter with the Nanticokes along the Kuskakarawaok River in 1608, to the struggles faced by these uniquely multiracial communities amid the racial and social tensions of mid-twentieth-century America.

  • They might never have met, though they nearly crossed paths several times during their young adult years. Even if they had met then, strident objections against mixing races would’ve filled the background, contaminating their relationship before it had a chance to blossom.

  • History Matters: Nanticoke tribe seeks to sustain its identity Delaware Public Media: Delaware’s source for NPR News WDDE 91.1, Dover WMPH 91.7, Wilmington 2015-06-26 Anne Hoffman, Youth Producer and General Assignment Reporter History Matters examines the Nanticoke Tribe of Delaware’s fight to maintain its identity. They’re called Delaware’s Forgotten Folks. In the second part of…

  • History Matters: Delaware’s Forgotten Folks Delaware Public Media: Delaware’s source for NPR News WDDE 91.1, Dover WMPH 91.7, Wilmington 2015-06-05 Anne Hoffman, Youth Producer and General Assignment Reporter History Matters examines the Levin Sockum case and its impact on the Nanticoke Tribe of Delaware They’re called Delaware’s Forgotten Folks. For the next two editions of…

  • Free African Americans of Maryland and Delaware from the Colonial Period to 1810 Genealogical Publishing Company 2000 392 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780806350424 Paul Heinegg As he did for Free Blacks in North Carolina and Virginia, Paul Heinegg has reconstructed the history of the free African American communities of Maryland and Delaware by looking at the…

  • The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that 2010 Census population totals and demographic characteristics have been released for communities in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. These data have provided the first look at population counts for small areas and race, Hispanic origin, voting age and housing unit data released from…

  • Mitsawokett to Bloomsbury: Archaeology and History of a Native-American Descendant Community in Central Delaware Chapter 5. A Larger Ethnic Community 2008 383 pages Delaware Department of Transportation Project 88-110-01 Federal Highway Administration Project F-NH-1003(13) Delaware Department of Transportation Archæological Series Number 154 Carolann Wicks, Secretary Original and redraft prepared by Edward F. Heite and Cara L.…