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Unami Indian Tribal History
Unami One of the principal divisions
of the Delaware, formerly occupying the Pennsylvania side of the Delaware
river, from the junction of the Lehigh southward about the Delaware line.
According to Brinton, many of the New Jersey Delaware were Unami who had
crossed the Delaware to escape the inroads of the
Conestoga, and Ruttenber
classes with this division the Navasink, Raritan, Hackensack, Aquakanonk,
Tappan and Haverstraw, of northern New Jersey. The Unami held
precedence over the other Delaware. Their totem was the turtle (pakoango).
According to Morgan, they were one of the three gentes of the Delaware,
while Brinton says the turtle was the merely the symbol of a
geographic division.
The Unami have sometimes been called the Turtle tribe
of the Delaware.
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Handbook
of American Indians, 1906
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