Delaware (Lenape)

In the record

The United States made 20 treaties and agreements that name Delaware (Lenape) as a party, from Treaty with the Delawares (Treaty of Fort Pitt), 1778 to Delaware at Delaware Agency, Kansas (1866).

C. C. Royce’s 1899 schedule records 38 cessions of land from Delaware (Lenape) between 1795 and 1866: about 41 million acres by this atlas’s estimate, counting overlaps once. 25 of them came through treaties made under documented pressure. The largest was Land of the Chippewa, Delaware and others in Indiana and Ohio, ceded 1795 (area 11), about 19 million acres, ceded under Treaty of Greenville, 1795.

The atlas records 2 broken treaty promises involving Delaware (Lenape): Fort Pitt 1778: first U.S.-Indian treaty and the Delaware (Lenape) statehood clause and Greenville 1795 and Fort Wayne 1809: encroachment, then cession under pressure.

Today, Delaware Nation (Oklahoma), Delaware Tribe of Indians and Stockbridge Munsee Community carry this history, as their own pages or research records say.

Written from the records linked here; open any of them for its sources. This is what the United States’ treaty record says, not the nation’s own account.