INDIAN RIVER SUSSEX COUNTY
NANTICOLE INDIAN TRIBE
Pennsylvania Indians To
Greet Nanticke People. Nanticoke, Pennsylvania and the surrounding
territory, once a center for the sorcery and black arts of the Red
Men when the Nanticoke Indians roamed Wyoming Valley Pennsylvania,
will welcome descendants of the Nanticoke Tribe at the Pennsylvania
Folk Festival at Lewisburg Pennsylvania, July 30 to 31, announced
director George Korson today. The Indians will be greeted by Mayor
Stanley Ostroski of Lewisburg, . The Governors George Earle of
Pennsylvania and George McMullen of Delaware have been invited to
attend.
The appearance of the
Nanticokes who live on the Indian River of Sussex County Delaware re
sponsored by the Greater Nanticoke Board of Commerce.
This news item from the
Danville Morning News, July 31 1937
Five Indians of the
Nanticoke Tribe enroute to Lewisburg , Pennsylvania by automobile
yesterday morning escaped with slight injuries in an accident at
elizabethtown when their car was forced off the highway by a truck
going in the opposite direction. In the car were Chief Little Olw,
Red fox, Running Bear, White Eagle and Mawett. Only one was slightly
hurt but the entire party came on to Lewisburg. They had left the
Colony of the Indian River Tribe in Sussex County Delaware on their
first tribal trip into Central Pennsylvania since the Nanticoke were
driven out by white settlers in 1753.
This news item from the
Danville Morning News of Danville, Pa 31 July 1937
A group of Nanticoke
Indians came here yesterday to adopt Edward C. Pendergast, secretary
to Governor Earl as a member of their tribe. The Indians who live in
Sussex County Delaware stopped in Harrisburg on their way to the
Pennsylvania folk Festival at Lewisburg. While waiting the members of
the group were taken on a tour of the Capital building.
This news item from the
Harrisburg Evening News, 30 July 1937.
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