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Professor Becker has had a long academic career researching the Lenape, and other early Indian tribes. His article had to be extensively reduced, and so we offer here his bibliographic list for further reading:
Axtell, James
2001 Natives and Newcomers: The Cultural Origins of North America. New York: Oxford University Press.
Banks, Kenneth J.
2002 Chasing Empire Across the Sea: Communications and the State in the French Atlantic, 1713-1763. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
Baxter, James Phinney (editor)
1907 Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Second Series. Documentary History of the State of Maine, Volume X, Containing The Baxter Manuscripts. Portland: Lefavor-Tower Company.
Becker, Marshall Joseph
1979 Ethnohistory and archaeology in search of the Printzhof; the 17th century residence of Swedish Colonial Governor Johan Printz. Ethnohistory 26 (1): 15 - 44.
1987 The Moravian Mission in the Forks of the Delaware: Reconstructing the Migration and Settlement Patterns of the Jersey Lenape during the Eighteenth Century through Documents in the Moravian Archives. Unitas Fratrum. Special Issue: "The American Indians and the Moravians" 21/22: 83 - 172.
1988 Native Settlements in the Forks of Delaware, Pennsylvania in the 18th Century: Archaeological Implications. Pennsylvania Archaeologist 58(1): 43-60.
1990 Hannah Freeman: An Eighteenth-Century Lenape Living and Working Among Colonial Farmers. Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 114: 249-269.
1992 Teedyuscung's Youth and Hereditary Land Rights in New Jersey: The
Identification of the Unalachtigo. Bulletin of the Archaeological Society of New Jersey 47: 37-60.
1993 Connecticut Origins for Some Native Americans in New Jersey During the Early
Historic Period: Strategies for the Use of Native American Names in Research. Bulletin of the Archaeological Society of New Jersey 48: 62-64.
1995 Lenape Maize Sales to the Swedish Colonists: Cultural Stability during the Early Colonial Period. Pages 121- 136 of, New Sweden in America, edited by Carol E. Hoffecker, Richard Waldron, Lorraine E. Williams, and Barbara E. Benson. Newark, Delaware: University of Delaware Press.
1998 Mehoxy of the Cohansey Band of South Jersey Indians: His Life as a Reflection of Symbiotic Relations With Colonists in Southern New Jersey and the Lower Counties of Pennsylvania. Bulletin of the Archaeological Society of New Jersey, 53: 40-68.
1999a Cash Cropping by Lenape Foragers: Preliminary Notes on Native Maize Sales to Swedish Colonists and Cultural Stability During the Early Colonial Period. Bulletin of the Archaeological Society of New Jersey 54: 45-68.
1999b Archaeology at the Printzhof (36DE3), The Only Documented Early 17th Century Swedish Site in the Delaware Valley. Journal of Middle Atlantic Archaeology 15: 77-94.
2000 European Trade and Colonization in the Territory of the Lenape During the 17th Century: A “Modern” Historical Model for Greek Colonization in Italy and Elsewhere in Magna Graecia. Bulletin of the Archaeological Society of New Jersey 55: 33-43.
2004a The Archaeology of Ethnicity: Can Historical Archaeology Extract the Ciconicin from the Melting Pot of Delaware? SAA Archaeological Record (The Archaeology of Ethnicity II) Volume 4 (5): 26-28.
2004b Native Americans from Toms River: Teedyuscung and his Lenopi kin. Newsletter of the Archaeological Society of New Jersey 204 (Jan.): 1-4.
2005a Matchcoats: Cultural Conservatism and Change. Ethnohistory 52 (4): 727-787.
2005b Wampum used by Lenape and Swedes in Colonial America: A tale of sex and violence involving ‘decorative’ belts of wampum. Newsletter of the Archaeological Society of New Jersey 208 (March): 1-4.
2005c Penobscot Wampum Belt Use during the 1722-1727 Conflict in Maine. Pages 23-51 in, Papers of the Thirty-Sixth Algonquian Conference, edited by H. C. Wolfart. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba.
2006 Anadromous Fish and the Lenape. Pennsylvania Archaeologist 76 (2): 28-40.
2008 Lenopi, or, what’s in a name? Interpreting the Evidence for Cultures and Cultural Boundaries in the Lower Delaware Valley. Bulletin of the Archaeological Society of New Jersey 63: 11 – 32.
2010a “Late Woodland” (CA. 1000-1740 CE) Foraging Patterns of the Lenape and Their Neighbors in the Delaware Valley. Pennsylvania Archaeologist 80 (1): 17-31.
2010b The Armewamus Band of New Jersey: Other Clues to Differences Between the Lenopi and the Lenape. Pennsylvania Archaeologist 80 (2): 61-72.
2010c Match Coats and the Military: Mass-Produced Clothing for Native Americans as Parallel Markets in the Seventeenth Century. Textile History 41, No. 1: Supplement (Textile History and the Military). Pages 153-181.
2011a Jacob Skickett, Lenopi Elder: Preliminary Notes from Before 1750 to after 1802. Pennsylvania Archaeologist 81 (2): 65-76.
2011b The Prinzhof (36DE3), A Swedish Colonial Site that was the First European Center of Government in Present Pennsylvania. Bulletin of the Archaeological Society of Delaware 43 New series (Fall 2006): 1-34.
2011c Rockshelter Use During the “Late Woodland” Period in the Northeast: Increased Use as an Aspect of the Pelt Trade. North American Archaeologist 32 (1): 81-93.
2011d Lenape Culture History: The Transition of 1660 and its Implications for the Archaeology of the Final Phase of the Late Woodland Period. Journal of Middle Atlantic Archaeology 27:53-72.
2011e Keposh: First Lenopi Migrant into the Forks of Delaware in Pennsylvania. Newsletter of the Archaeological Society of New Jersey, No. 230 (January): 1, 3-7.
2013 Wampum Bags and Containers from the Native Northeast. Material Culture 45 (1): 21-48.
2014a Meggeckosjou: Identifying a Location Noted in 1659 as a Clue to Routes Taken Across New Jersey by Native Runners from the South River to New Amsterdam. Newsletter of the Archaeological Society of New Jersey 244 (May): 7-9.
2014b Ethnohistory of the Lower Delaware Valley: Addressing Myths in the Archaeological Interpretations of the Late Woodland and Contact Period. Journal of Middle Atlantic Archaeology 30: 41-53. (In press)
In press A John Skickett (1823? – After 1870): A Lenopi Descent Basketmaker working in Connecticut. Bulletin of the Archaeological Society of Connecticut (2014)
Ms. A ‘The Sekonese [Ciconicin] of Central Delaware: The Most Northern True Chiefdom in the Mid-Atlantic Region. Copy on file, Department of Anthropology, West Chester University of Pennsylvania.
Ms. B “Lenopi (‘Delaware’) Land Scams in the Colonial Period.” Copy on file, Department of Anthropology, West Chester University of Pennsylvania.
Ms. C “Lenopi (‘Delaware’) in the Early Colonial Economy: Cultural Integration Before 1740.” Copy on file, Department of Anthropology, West Chester University of Pennsylvania.
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1841 Extracts from The New World, or A Description of the West Indies by John de Laet, translated and edited by George Folsom. Collections of the New-York Historical Society, Second series, Vol. 1: 281-316. New York: H. Ludwig for the Society.
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2014 Personal communication (30 March) concerning stockings and leggings during the colonial period. Copy on file, Becker Archives, West Chester University of Pennsylvania.
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2003 “Extraordinary Freedom and great Humility”: A Reinterpretation of Deborah Franklin. Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 127 (2): 167-196.
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2013 We “Now Have Taken up the Hatchet Against Them”: Braddock’s Defeat and the Martial Liberation of the Western Delawares. Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 137 (3): 227-259.
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1996 Beavers for Drink, Land for Arms: Some Aspects of the Dutch Indian Trade in New Netherland. Pages 95-113 in, One Man’s Trash is Another Man’s Treasure. Exhibition catalogue edited by Alexandra van Dongen. Rotterdam: Museum Boymans-Van Beuningen.
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Professor Becker has had a long academic career researching the Lenape, and other early Indian tribes. His article had to be extensively reduced, and so we offer here his bibliographic list for further reading:
Axtell, James
2001 Natives and Newcomers: The Cultural Origins of North America. New York: Oxford University Press.
Banks, Kenneth J.
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