{"id":44637,"date":"2015-12-20T00:02:22","date_gmt":"2015-12-20T00:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44637"},"modified":"2015-12-20T00:02:22","modified_gmt":"2015-12-20T00:02:22","slug":"history-matters-nanticoke-tribe-seeks-to-sustain-its-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44637","title":{"rendered":"History Matters: Nanticoke tribe seeks to sustain its identity"},"content":{"rendered":"

History Matters: Nanticoke tribe seeks to sustain its identity<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Delaware Public Media: Delaware’s source for NPR News<\/a>
\nWDDE 91.1, Dover
\nWMPH 91.7, Wilmington
\n2015-06-26<\/p>\n

Anne Hoffman<\/a><\/strong>, Youth Producer and General Assignment Reporter<\/p>\n

History Matters examines the Nanticoke Tribe of Delaware’s<\/a> fight to maintain its identity.<\/em><\/p>\n

They\u2019re called Delaware\u2019s<\/a> Forgotten Folks.<\/p>\n

In the second part of a two-part History Matters – produced in conjunction with the Delaware Historical Society<\/a>, we continue our in-depth look at the Nanticoke Tribe<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“My name is William Daisey<\/a>. And my Native American name is Thunder Eagle. And I\u2019m chief of the Nanticoke Indian Tribe of Delaware.”<\/p>\n

Chief Daisey was born in 1931 in Millsboro<\/a>. Back then, he says, transportation was just \u201cModel T\u2019s<\/a>\u201d and \u201chorse and buggies.\u201d So the farming town in Southern Delaware where he grew up felt a million miles away from bustling Wilmington<\/a> or even Dover<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“We were taught how to hunt, fish make bow and arrows, rabbit traps. We were taught which berries to pick, which fruit was edible,” said Daisey.<\/p>\n

Families back then passed on what are called lifeway traditions, curing illnesses with old remedies and using Native American ways to gather more food than just that year\u2019s harvest. From the time he could walk, Chief Daisey was learning…<\/p>\n

Read or listen to the story here<\/a>. Download the story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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\u2019re called Delaware\u2019s Forgotten Folks. In the second part of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2850,395,459,8,3015,20],"tags":[22301,4940,22300,22296,22295,22303,22291,22290,22302,22304,22293,22292],"class_list":["post-44637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-audio","category-autobiography","category-history","category-media-archive","category-native-americans","category-usa","tag-anne-hoffman","tag-delaware","tag-delaware-historical-society","tag-nanticoke-tribe","tag-nanticoke-tribe-of-delaware","tag-thunder-eagle","tag-wdde","tag-wdde-91-1","tag-william-daisey","tag-william-h-daisey","tag-wmph","tag-wmph-91-7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44638,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44637\/revisions\/44638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}