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Chapters: Lenape, Nanticoke Indian Tribe, Unalachtigo Lenape, Nanticoke Indian Association. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 29. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Lenape (pronounced or ) are a group of several organized bands of Native American peoples with shared cultural and linguistic characteristics. Their name for themselves (autonym), sometimes spelled Lennape or Lenapi, means "the people." They are also known as the Lenni Lenape (the "true people") or as the Delaware Indians. English settlers named the Delaware River after Lord De La Warr, the governor of the Jamestown settlement. They used the exonym above for almost all the Lenape people living along this river and its tributaries. At the time of European contact in the 16th and 17th centuries, the Lenape lived in the area called Lenapehoking, roughly the area around and between the Delaware and lower Hudson Rivers. This encompassed what are now known as the U.S. state of New Jersey; eastern Pennsylvania around the Delaware and Lehigh valleys; the north shore of Delaware; and southeastern New York, particularly the lower Hudson Valley and New York Harbor. They spoke two related languages in the Algonquian subfamily, collectively known as the Delaware languages: Unami and Munsee. Lenape society was organized into clans determined by matrilineal descent. Territory was collective, but divided by clan. At the time of European contact, the Lenape practiced large-scale agriculture, their primary crop being varieties of maize. They also practiced hunting and the harvesting of seafood. They were primarily sedentary, moving to different established campsites by season. After the arrival of Dutch settlers and traders in the 17th century, the Lenape and other tribes became heavily involved in the North American fur trade. This dep...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=230270 ... Read more

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Hitakonanulaxk has done extensive research to recover the tales collected in this volume. The stories tell, among other things, of how Nanapush, the Grandfather of beings and men, created the Earth on the back of the Great Turtle, and how the Lenape people came to live along the Eastern seaboard of what is now the United States of America. ... Read more

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Important Window into the Past
The Grandfathers Speak: Native American Folk Tales of the Lenape People is a marvelous small book: it preserves important historical and pre-colonization information about the people who lived in the core of the United States east coast Megalopolis (Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Delaware). The people the Europeans called Indians appear to have lived a relative peaceful life in harmony with nature for thousands of years.The outline of their history is dramatically altered for the worse as Europeans flooded the land. Unlike peoples of Europe and Asia the pressures of population growth were apparently not as great; therefore the stimulus for competitive technological development was apparently less.Advances in weapons, agriculture and medicine occurred at a much slower rate, nevertheless the Neolithic culture outlined in this book was much more advanced and civilized in many ways then it is portrayed in popular media (especially in mid-twentieth century).

I was surprised to learn details of the history of the Lenape people I had never learned of before: my eyes were opened to many more negative effects brought about by the arrival of the colonists.The Grandfathers Speak: Native American Folk Tales of the Lenape People has become an epiphany for me and has lead me to acquire and read several more books about theLenape people such as:

William Penn and the Founding of Pennsylvania: A Documentary History, 1683 by Albert Cook Myers

The Indians of New Jersey: Dickon Among the Lenapes by M. R. Harrington and Clarence Ellsworth (Illustrator)

I highly recommend this book to be included in a list of supplemental reading for students of American History.

excellent resource
This is an excellent resource for persons who are interested in the Lenape (Delaware) Indian people.The stories are clear and have the use of the Lenape language.

Wonderful Book!
My husband is one quarter Lenape and three quarters German. He grew up hearing a few stories from his Grandmother but she didn't know a lot of her own people's history. He's always been interested in knowing more about his heritage. We moved to New Jersey, near the Raritan River and imagine our suprise when we realized that he'd moved very near to one of the places his people once lived in. I got him this book for Christmas and we LOVED it. We read about Rainbow Crow and Nanapush. He read to me every night in bed, the stories of his people. We found much to be sad over but much more to be joyful for. Whenever we see a Crow now, we smile and we look at eacother. This is a highly recommended book for anyone interested in the history and stories of the Lenape People. ... Read more

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From the bestselling author of Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years comes the inspiring true story of Marion "Strong Medicine" Gould, a Native American matriarch, and the Indian way of life that must never be forgotten.

Amy Hill Hearth's first book, Having Our Say, told the true story of two century-old African-American sisters and went on to become an enduring bestseller and the subject of a three-time Tony Award-nominated play. In "Strong Medicine" Speaks, Hearth turns her talent for storytelling to a Native American matriarch presenting a powerful account of Indian life.

Born and raised in a nearly secret part of New Jersey that remains Native ancestral land, Marion "Strong Medicine" Gould is an eighty-five-year-old Elder in her Lenni-Lenape tribe and community. Taking turns with the author as the two women alternate voices throughout this moving book, Strong Medicine tells of her ancestry, tracing it back to the first Native peoples to encounter the Europeans in 1524, through the strife and bloodshed of America's early years, up to the twentieth century and her own lifetime, decades colored by oppression and terror yet still lifted up by the strength of an enduring collective spirit.

This genuine and delightful telling gives voice to a powerful female Elder whose dry wit and charming humor will provide wisdom and inspiration to readers from every background. ... Read more

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Strong Medicine Speaks
Great book.Story ofwoman native American.Thought the Lenni Lenape Indians had died out.Find out they are alive and strong in NJ.

Strong Medicine For What Ails You
I had no idea I've been waiting for words of wisdom from a Native American Elder. But Strong Medicine is (forgive me) just what the doctor ordered.

Marion "Strong Medicine" Gould's story is a big one. She has suffered. She inspires. She laughs. She shares wisdom you'll want to reflect on. And she does not shrink down from saying what many of us think but might not say out loud. (Or in a book.)

I'm not a history buff, but I loved learning about Strong Medicine's life--precisely because of the way Hearth presented the information. I didn't feel like I was getting a lesson. I felt like I was making a new friend. A really compassionate and wise and funny one.

A True Moving Experience
This book is a gem!I acutally felt each story as though it were "Stong Medicine" actually speaking directly to me.I felt all emotions, happy, excited, anticipation, and sad as she told this beautiful story.

Amy captured her and this book will truly capture you!

What a testimony of true Native American life. ... Read more

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Lenape Through Time
This is an excellent history of the Lenape people and the trials they endured at the hands of European and American colonists over the centuries. It offers a detailed view of these relationships and uses primary source documents to tell the story - a very important factor in any true understanding of a culture. I do find, however,with the exception of the Hudson River Valley, that the Lenape northeast of the New York City area were not much of a focal point; unfortunately, this is the major focus of my research so I was a bit disappointed. However, the global view is well written and well documented and contributes to my knowledge of the tribe as a whole.

An excellent resource
As a writer of Lenape fiction, I used a number of books for reference material.As a Lenape man who was raised off the reservation, I needed to find information that was not passed on to me as a child.

I highly recommend this book for those who want an idea of our past and our future as a Lenape Nation

The First Book was the Best
The Delaware Indians was the first book I read on the Lenape. ("Delawares" was the name given by European colonists to the Lenape people.)After reading many other books on the Lenape, Weslager's work remains the best book on the subject I've read.

As striking as the exemplary research demonstrated in the book is its accessible style.Cleary Weslager took great pains to make the story of the relatively unknown Lenape people available to as wide an audience as possible.The book is a complete history of the Lenape, and its source material is oral traditions carried down by the Lenape, colonial records and writings, and 20th century records and personal narratives as well.

Weslager also describes Lenape customs, ceremonies and beliefs.His description of the Lenape Big House Ceremony is fascinating.Weslager's accounts of the successive betrayals, deceptions and crimes of the European colonists and their American descendants track the disastrous trail of the Lenape from their original homeland to present day Oklahoma.Readers can easily sense that Weslager's sympathies for the Lenape people border on advocacy.Unsurprisingly, Weslager ends the book by describing the Lenape's attempt to receive compensation owed to them by the USA government for over 100 years.

I highly recommend this book and others by Weslager as well.

PERFECT
I thought this book was perfect! I had a HUGE paper to write on the Lenni-Lenape/Delaware tribe and I couldn't find much information on them. I found this book, I bought it, I read it, I loved it, I wrote my paper using some information from it, and I got an A+ on my paper. I learned so much from this beautifully written book!

An excellent, well-researched study of Delaware Indians
Weslager combines a flair for description with a scholarly tone to produce what is to date the most fair, accurate study of the Delaware Indians, or Lenni Lenape.Using historical, archealogical, anthropological, andethnohistorical evidence, Weslager provides an almost complete history ofthis often neglected Indian tribe.This work is a must read for anyoneinterested in the early history of the mid-Atlantic region. ... Read more

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Seventeenth-century Indians from the Delaware and lower Hudson valleys organized their lives around small-scale groupings of kin and communities. Living through epidemics, warfare, economic change, and physical dispossession, survivors from these peoples came together in new locations, especially the eighteenth-century Susquehanna and Ohio River valleys. In the process, they did not abandon kin and community orientations, but they increasingly defined a role for themselves as Delaware Indians in early American society.

Peoples of the River Valleys offers a fresh interpretation of the history of the Delaware, or Lenape, Indians in the context of events in the mid-Atlantic region and the Ohio Valley. It focuses on a broad and significant period: 1609-1783, including the years of Dutch, Swedish, and English colonization and the American Revolution. An epilogue takes the Delawares' story into the mid-nineteenth century.

Amy C. Schutt examines important themes in Native American history—mediation and alliance formation—and shows their crucial role in the development of the Delawares as a people. She goes beyond familiar questions about Indian-European relations and examines how Indian-Indian associations were a major factor in the history of the Delawares. Drawing extensively upon primary sources, including treaty minutes, deeds, and Moravian mission records, Schutt reveals that Delawares approached alliances as a tool for survival at a time when Euro-Americans were encroaching on Native lands. As relations with colonists were frequently troubled, Delawares often turned instead to form alliances with other Delawares and non-Delaware Indians with whom they shared territories and resources. In vivid detail, Peoples of the River Valleys shows the link between the Delawares' approaches to land and the relationships they constructed on the land.

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"It is offered not as a textbook nor as a scientific discussion, but merely as reading entertainment founded on the life history, social struggle, and customs of a little-known people."--From the Preface

C. A. Weslager's Delaware's Forgotten Folk chronicles the history of the Nanticoke Indians and the Cheswold Moors, from John Smith's first encounter with the Nanticokes along the Kuskakarawaok River in 1608, to the struggles faced by these uniquely multiracial communities amid the racial and social tensions of mid-twentieth-century America. It explores the legend surrounding the origin of the two distinct but intricately intertwined groups, focusing on how their uncommon racial heritage--white, black, and Native American--shaped their identity within society and how their traditional culture retained its significance into their present.

Weslager's demonstrated command of available information and his familiarity with the people themselves bespeak his deep respect for the Moor and Nanticoke communities. What began as a curious inquiry into the overlooked peoples of the Delaware River Valley developed into an attentive and thoughtful study of a distinct group of people struggling to remain a cultural community in the face of modern opposition. Originally published in 1943, Delaware's Forgotten Folk endures as one of the fundamental volumes on understanding the life and history of the Nanticoke and Moor peoples. ... Read more

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FinallyReprinted
I have been anxious to get a replacement copy of this marvelous book since I misplaced mine in the family. Anyone related to the Ridgeways, Morgans, Morris, Hanzers/Hanzors, Clarks and Wrights should have this book.My mother's family traces back to the Durham Hanzor family tree and Dr. Weslager has shared much of the struggle that many went through regarding their identity in this text.Thanks to Dr. Weslager who did a tremendous piece of work for Native American history in Delaware and for our family by writing this story.I am thrilled that it is available again.

Moor roots in North America
For those who do not believe the Moors genesis begins in North America as well as North Africa C.A. Weslager proves this fact. This book tells the story of the plight of a noble people. That was subject to enormous indignIties and injustice. This story sears the mind like a red hot poker. The story is a painful one, but absolutely true for the most part.

C.A. Weslager also mentions the Nanticokes as well as the Croatans, Melungeons, Red Bones, Wesorts, Virginia mix blood bands etc. The fascinating superstitions and folklore of the Moors are mentioned in detail. Weslager even spends a weekend with an amalgamated Moor, and narrates the whole experience to the reader. Weslager lists ancient Moor medicinal remedies, Moor sayings and Moor proverbs. The photographs of Moors and Nanticokes illustrate how their hue has amalgamated over the years.Weslager's"The Delawares a History"would be a great companion. I would also highly recommend "The Huevolution of Sacred Muur Science Past and Present" by Noble Timothy Myers-El

Legendary book lives up to expectations
This book provided great insight into the history and culture of the Nanticokes and Moors of Delaware.Weslager really depicts the lifestyles and barriers faced by these proud people. It also demonstrates how Delaware's "race laws" helped to divide and almost eliminate the groups.A must read for people interested in Native American, African American and Delaware history. ... Read more

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A seminal contribution to Native American studies.
Legends of the Delaware Indians and Picture Writing is beautifullyamplified by Deborah Nichol's introduction and brief biography of RichardC. Adams(1864-1921), a self educated Delaware (Lenape) Indian who devoted25 years of his life to the furtherance of causes of the many trialedDelaware tribe.The Legends are part of his scholarly and historicallegacy.The tales teach homilies on desirable attributes such aspride, courage, promise-keeping, modesty and courtesy as well as courtingcustoms, gambling games, and other pastimes.The picture writing andphotographs enrich and complement the text as do the appendices of Lenapetranslations of several of the legends by Lucy Parks Blalock and NoraThompson Deane. Legends Of The Delaware Indians And Picture Writingis a very valuable text both because of the enriched script of the talesbut also because of the complex, condensed history of the persecutionssuffered by the Delawares detailed in the introduction.The coverillustration gracing Legends of the Delaware Indians is a color paintingreproduction of Delaware Women by Ruth Blalock Jones.

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Best Non-Fiction Book - 2008 Indiana Society of Professional Journalists Awards (SPJ)

Through first-person accounts, Long Journey Home presents the stories of the Lenape, also known as the Delaware Tribe. These oral histories, which span the post-Civil War era to the present, are gathered into four sections and tell of personal and tribal events as they unfold over time and place. The history of the Lenape is one of forced displacement, from their original tribal home along the eastern seaboard into Pennsylvania, continuing with a series of displacements in Ohio, Indiana, Missouri, Kansas, and the Indian Territory. For the group of Lenape interviewed for this book, home is now the area around Bartlesville, Oklahoma. The stories of their long journey have been handed down and remain part of the tribe's collective memory and bring an unforgettable immediacy to the tale of the Lenape. Above all they make clear that the history of seven generations remains very much alive. ... Read more

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Inside look at the life of the Delaware
This is an amazing book of interviews with a number of Lanape, Delaware Indians.It is so amazing to hear their stories.The pictures of the individuals are beautifully done.I love this book, it is one you pick up over and over. ... Read more

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Social customs, history, religion, habitations of the aboriginal inhabitants of New Jersey. Presentation includes the full text of an Indian deed of 1703 conveying a huge tract of land (generally north of Trenton) to members of the Council of Proprietors.(NJHS 1917) ... Read more

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This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Delaware Indians; Indian dance; History / Native American; Social Science / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies; ... Read more

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In 1764, the Ohio Indians turned over 206 white captives to Colonel Bouquet at his headquarters on the Tuscarawas River, pursuant to conditions of a signed treaty. Among the captives was Mary Campbell, returned by Chief Netawatwees of the Lenni Lenape Delaware Indians. Colonel Bouquet witnessed the parting of Netawatwees and the girl, and he later wrote that it was a tearful and touching scene. In fact, he noted that many of the returned captives were reluctant to return to their white families and some had to be tied up to keep them from escaping back to the Indians.
This is the story of Mary Campbell’s kidnapping and captivity. Because Mary apparently left no written record of her years with the Indians, we can only guess at what her life must have been like. And while most of the events and people in my story are real, other details will remain forever shrouded in mystery.
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A Nation of Women chronicles changing ideas of gender and identity among the Delaware Indians from the mid-seventeenth through the eighteenth century, as they encountered various waves of migrating peoples in their homelands along the eastern coast of North America.

In Delaware society at the beginning of this period, to be a woman meant to engage in the activities performed by women, including diplomacy, rather than to be defined by biological sex. Among the Delaware, being a "woman" was therefore a self-identification, employed by both women and men, that reflected the complementary roles of both sexes within Delaware society. For these reasons, the Delaware were known among Europeans and other Native American groups as "a nation of women."

Decades of interaction with these other cultures gradually eroded the positive connotations of being a nation of women as well as the importance of actual women in Delaware society. In Anglo-Indian politics, being depicted as a woman suggested weakness and evil. Exposed to such thinking, Delaware men struggled successfully to assume the formal speaking roles and political authority that women once held. To salvage some sense of gender complementarity in Delaware society, men and women redrew the lines of their duties more rigidly. As the era came to a close, even as some Delaware engaged in a renewal of Delaware identity as a masculine nation, others rejected involvement in Christian networks that threatened to disturb the already precarious gender balance in their social relations.

Drawing on all available European accounts, including those in Swedish, German, and English, Fur establishes the centrality of gender in Delaware life and, in doing so, argues for a new understanding of how different notions of gender influenced all interactions in colonial North America.

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Publisher: Philadelphia : Printed by J. Kay, Jun.Publication date: 1827Subjects: Delaware languageNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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A poor choice...
The author/editor states he has a degree in linguistics, but not Lenape. So, what are his qualifications to butcher our language? As an enrolled Lenape, Munsee woman, Six Nations, I take personal offense to the many mistakes. It is bad enough we have so many masquerading as Lenape and stealing our culture, now we have to deal with misinformation from "scholars" who feed these charlatans drivel so they can go out and "educate" the uninformed public. This book does not have the support of legitimate, recognized Delaware Nation. Thank the Creator!

A collection of existing material
I am the author, or should I say editor, of this book and wanted to include a review for this book other than the one already on this page.We have a small, family-run business, Wennawoods Publishing, and we specialize in reprinting material that is relevant to the history of the early eastern American frontier.That being said, I pulled 18th century sources(and a few 19th century) as the material for this book and have presented it to the reader as a collation of what is out there.I am not a native speaker of Lenape, but have my degree in Linguistics, specializing in Indo-European languages(especially German).Most of the material that I collected for this book was recorded by German-speaking missionaries, thus giving me an insight into the 'historic' Lenape language.If you're looking for an overly-technical approach to a modern, living dialect of the language, this book is not for you...perhaps the other reviewer can help you in that department.If you'd like a nice, little collection of some of the material that is out there concerning the historic Delaware Indian language of the 18th century, then you might want to consider purchasing this book.

Amateurish
There are some serious problems with this book.First of all, the so-called WALAM OLUM is a proven hoax, which is full of artificial "Delaware" words made-up by C.S. Rafinesque. Therefore, the references to it (pages 5,6,7 and 27), and the reproduction of its text and translation (pages 41-52) honestly have no place in a book on the REAL Delaware language.Second, Daniel G. Brinton's translation of Johannes Roth's Delaware version of Matthew 22:1-14 is terribly inadequate. There are numerous errors in the translation, and even the Delaware text is often transcribed wrong. For example: In verse 1, he renders "nuwuntschi" as "he-began." It actually means "therefore." The word, "neli" ["nelih" in Roth], was crossed out by Roth, so it shouldn't even be part of the text. In verse 2, the word, "na," does not mean "him," but "that-one;" and, "Witachpungewiwulatpoagan" is not "marriage," but "marriage feast." In verse 3, "wentschitsch" means "so-that-will," not "the-bidden," as Brinton writes. And, "schingipawak" means "they-are-unwilling-to-come," not "they-are-unwilling." In verse 4, "Mauwilo" means "Go-and-tell-them," not "those;" and "penna," for which Brinton offers no translation, means "Behold!" In the same verse, "nihillalachkik" means "those-whom-I-own," not "they-are-killed;" and "Wisuhengpannik" is "they-who-were-fattened," not "they-fattened-them." Brinton also leaves out three words, in this verse, which are found in Roth's work. Mistakes like this occur in every verse. Third, on page 18, information on the pronunciation of w, aa, ae, au, ee, eu, i, oa and oo is either incorrect or incomplete. W, before a consonant, is pronounced something like a whispered, whistled w. The aa, ee and oo are pronounced exactly like the long a, e and o. They are not slightly longer. The i can also be pronounced the same as ie, sometimes. Au and eu are pronounced like a + whispered w, and e + whispered w, when they occur at the end of a word. Finally, oa is more like the aw in "awful" than the oa in "soap." (Since the combination, ae, only appears in the words from Roth, it is irrelevant. However, it was to be pronounced like a long e.) Fourth, on page 20, the meanings for "-elendam," "-hilleu," "-it," "-wagan" and "-wi"/"-we" are wrong. "-elendam" is a verb suffix which expresses "a disposition, situation or operation of the mind" (Zeisberger). "-hilleu" is used to indicate "motion." "-it" means "he (or she) who ...," in participles. "-wagan" changes verbs into nouns. "-wi" is used to form negative verbs. I have no idea what "-we" signifies. It depends on what letter precedes it. I can't think of a single case where it means "s/he, it is ...," however. Fifth, also on page 20, it should be noted that "(w)ak" pluralizes ANIMATE nouns, while "(w)all" pluralizes INANIMATE nouns. The "-all" at the end of "amemensall" is NOT a plural. It is an obviative suffix used to mark grammatically subsidiary third persons. It doesn't distinguish between singular and plural. Thus, "amemensall" can mean either "child" or "children," depending on the context in which the word is used. The plural form of "amemens" is "amemensak." Sixth, on page 21, there are no such forms as "kquis" and "wquis" in Delaware. "Your son" is "quis," where the k merges with the q. "His son" is "quisall," where the w moves to the right and merges with the u, and the word is further marked for obviative with the "-all" suffix. Seventh, on this same page, the plural verb forms are correct, but they mix suffixes for indicative and subordinative modes. The n---neen should be changed to the indicative n---hena, in order to match the mode of the other affixes shown. Eighth, on page 22, the prefixes on the forms for "he loves us" and "he loves you (pl.)" should be n- and k-, respectively--not w-. Ninth, on page 23, so far as the "irregularity" of the last vowel of the verb stem is concerned, the forms which contain "-ge-" are Theme 2 Transitive Animate verbs. These are also known as "inverse" forms, because the action of the verb flows from right to left (i.e., object < verbal action < subject). Tenth, on page 55, ch and k cannot really be substituted for each other. Finally, there are some finer points of grammar which I won't get into, here. What I have mentioned should suffice to show that the grammar section of this book is horribly flawed.Raymond Whritenour LENAPE TEXTS & STUDIES ... Read more