Counting in Delaware

 

By using the Alphabet Chart to pronounce the sounds try counting to ten. Here is a little help:

 

1...kuti

2...niisha

3...naxa

4...neewa

5...paleenaxk

6...kutash

7...niishash

8...xash

9...peshkung

10...telin

 

 

By remembering the tens you now add 'and" plus the number from 1 thru 9, as in eleven:

 

11...telinokkuti

12...telinokniisha

13...telinoknaxa

20...niishiinxka

30...xinxke

40...neeinxke

50...paleenaxkxinxke

60...kutashxinxke

70...niishashxinxke

80...xashxinxke

90...peshkungxinxke

100...kutapxki

 

 

 

 

Delaware Symbol

Our symbol is: TULAMAKUM -- GRANDFATHERS

Our clan is TAA KOX, meaning Turtle in Delaware

 

 

 

Delaware Song

No-wa-tone, No-wa-tone

Hay-lay-loiema, gee-shay-loiema

 

No-wa-tone, No-wa-tone

Hay-lay-loiema, gee-shay-loiema

 

The meaning of this song is "Lord I know you love me."

By Winnie Poolaw

 

 

 

Delaware Games

Can you unscramble the name of the animals that are in Delaware?

 

KMAXW (Bear)      _______

 

HOOC-NELS (Birds)   _________                 

 

ECECLIEL (Buffalo)   ________

 

PSHUUI (Cat)   ________

 

AHATU (Deer)   _______

 

AMWEEANKE (Dog)   ___________

 

KMWIDGWINUKM (Duck)   _______________

 

IH-HONN (Eagle)   ________

 

AN-SEM (Fish)   _________

 

XOWQIS (Fox)   __________

 

NEANNOGKSE (Horse)   ___________

 

WQNAISH-AWQ-SUN (Lion)   ____________

 

CHMULULUUWUHE (Owl)   ______________

 

SHOOK-OOSHK (Pig)   ___________

 

POOPSWIKH (Quail)  ________

 

HACAMMIS (Rabbit)   ____________

 

NAXKIIW (Squirrel)  __________

 

AAKOXT (Turtle)   ________

 

HEEKC-NO (Turkey)  __________

 

 

 

Can you match the words to what they mean?

 

Tribe    Was a famous Delaware Scout for the Delaware Tribe.

 

Anadarko   A town in South Oklahoma.

 

Thank-you        Name of the tribe you belong to.

 

Texas       One who id older, one who has lived longer.

 

Black Beaver       Delaware (1781)

 

Elders   Race or family desended from the same ancestor.

 

Delaware   Where most of our people are at in Caddo County.

 

Lenni-Lenape    When you receive a gift you say the word.

 

 

 

 

Delaware Stories

 

Grandson Helping Grandmother

 

Winnie told this story about a boy helping a grandma out in the garden. He said "Grandma I cut those weeds down for you real good. So, his grandma didn't have to go out in the hot sun after all. She just stayed inside the house.

 

So, finally after he got through he told his grandmother "come out here grandma and see what I did to your garden. It's really pretty." So, she went out there pretty soon she started hollering because he had cut down the wrong things out of the garden. Instead, he cut the corn but not the weeds. But, the thought was that he helped his grandmother ou tin the garden. But they didn't have a garden that summer.

 

Told by Winnie Chidholm Poolaw

 

 

Story of a Little Boy

 

This is a story about a little boy who didn't listen to his mother. This mother told him to go put on a shirt, she told him two or three times to do it but he wouldn't listen. So, finally the boy looked up at his mother coming towards him. Boy! you should of saw him take off running because she had a swoth and he was being chased by his mother with that switch for not listening.

 

Boy! they both took off running they went from timber to timber chasing each other. She wouldn't even give up until Howard, that was his name, finally gave up. When mother came by him Howard just stuck out his hands because he wanted to shake hands with her so he wouldn't get a spanking from her.

 

Told by Bessie Snake