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Voices from the Delaware Big House Ceremony / edited by Robert S. Grumet.
Record details
- ISBN: 0806133600 (alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9780806133607 (alk. paper)
- Physical Description: xxv, 213 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
- Publisher: Norman, OK : University of Oklahoma Press, c2001.
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-205) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- The Big House described / Terry J. Prewitt -- The earliest accounts, 1655-1780 -- Beate and the White River revival, 1805-1806 -- Mid-nineteenth-century accounts -- Richard C. Adams's accounts -- Eastern Oklahoma Delaware Big House ceremonies, 1907-1910 -- Canadian Munsee Big House ceremonies, 1907-1910 -- Charlie Elkhair's text, 1912 -- The Charlie Webber (Wi.tapano'xwe) text of the Oklahoma Delaware Big House ceremony, 1928 -- Additional notes to the Big House ceremony, 1937 -- The Nicodemus Peters (Nekatcit) account, 1945 -- Lula Mae Gibson Gilliland's account, 1947 -- Eastern Oklahoma Delaware reminiscences, 1972-1994 -- Nora Thompson Dean's accounts of the Eastern Delaware Unami Delaware Big House, 1973-1984 - Delaware and English names of people referred to in the texts.
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- Big House Ceremony (Delaware rite)
Delaware Indians > Rites and ceremonies.
Delaware Indians > Religion.
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