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Delaware Prophet

Delaware Prophet dĕl´ewâr, -wer , fl. 18th cent., Native American leader. His real name is not known. He began preaching (c.1762) among the Delaware of the Muskingum valley in Ohio. He spoke against intertribal war, drunkenness, polygamy, and the use of magic, and he promised his hearers that if they would but heed his words the Native Americans would be strong again and able to resist the whites. He prepared symbolic charts of his message on deerskin and left them in various villages to help his converts teach others. The religious fervor spread rapidly and is said to have been an inspiration to Pontiac. After the collapse of Pontiac's Rebellion (1763-66) the cult of the Delaware Prophet waned and was largely superseded by that of the Munsee Prophet, who was in turn succeeded by the Shawnee Prophet.

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	Alfred A. Cave. Prophets of the Great Spirit: Native American Revitalization Movements in Eastern North America.(Book review) Magazine article from: Michigan Historical Review; 3/22/2007; ; 445 words ; ...Pennsylvania. Whereas in former times the Great Spirit had stood aloof from human affairs, in the visions of men like Neolin, the Delaware prophet, the Great Spirit frowned upon the miseries that had followed European colonization and showed his people how to reclaim... Read more
	(book reviews) Magazine article from: Journal of Social History; 12/22/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...abstemious behavior, the most extreme examples of which were the revitalization movements of various spiritual leaders like the Delaware Prophet Neolin. When native temperance advocates called for assistance from imperial officials and traders, they received virtually... Read more
	Calloway, Colin G. The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America.(Book review) Magazine article from: International Social Science Review; 9/22/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...the changes people faced throughout British North America. For instance, he argues that Pontiac's War, inspired by the Delaware prophet Neolin, was more than just a united Indian movement to stop white settlement in the west. According to Calloway, it was... Read more
	Gregory Evans Dowd. War under Heaven: Pontiac, the Indian Nations, and the British Empire.(Book Review) Magazine article from: Michigan Historical Review; 3/22/2003; ; 460 words ; ...of their claim to what we can call sovereignty, because God had made their country for them (p. 3). He explains how the Delaware prophet Neolin could influence Pontiac by exploring the relations between Ottawas and Delawares in the century prior to 1763. Dowd... Read more
	David Dixon. Never Come to Peace Again: Pontiac's Uprising and the Fate of the British Empire in North America.(Book review) Magazine article from: Michigan Historical Review; 9/22/2005; ; 513 words ; ...mistrustful of a British empire more concerned with economy than diplomacy. Linking the Ohio and Great Lakes alliances was the Delaware prophet Neolin, whose message of pan-Indian unity and regeneration included a call to reject English ways. Although the uprising... Read more

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