Example Sentences

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But leaders of the Shawnee Tribe and the Eastern Shawnees, both now based in Oklahoma, like the Delawares, said they hadn’t had any discussions about it.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 11, 2024

The framers from the big states, like Virginia’s James Madison, fought the idea furiously, but in the end, the Vermonts and Delawares had their way.

From Washington Post • Nov. 18, 2020

The French, aided by the Potawotomis, Ottawas, Shawnees, and Delawares, ambushed the fifteen hundred British soldiers and Virginia militia who marched to the fort.

From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014

Imagine carving out of an expanse as large as 1.5 Delawares — a mound as tall, from base to peak, as Mount McKinley in Alaska, the tallest mountain in North America at 20,237 feet.

From New York Times • Dec. 8, 2014

The decision to join the Moravian church made other Delawares uncomfortable.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz