ABSTRACT
The treaty of 1866 and the subsequent agreement between the Delawares and the Cherokees have sometimes been interpreted as spelling out the end of the tribe. This was what especially the dissenting Delawares were afraid of and at the same time the reason why almost every tribal member was dissatisfied with the agreement of 1867. And removal did indeed bring about many of the consequences the Lenape had feared it was going to cause, but it also turned out that, true to their history, the resilient Delaware tribal identity survived even this crisis.
