Algonquin: any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Algonquian language and originally living in the subarctic regions of eastern Canada; many Algonquian tribes migrated south into the woodlands from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic coast, including Leni Lenape, Iroquois, Shawnee, Wampanoag, and others.  Of or relating to an Algonquian tribe or its people or language

Captivity: Native American practice of adopting into their society survivors of military attacks. 

Christian Indians: term used to describe Native Americans who, under the influence of European missionaries, converted to Christianity.

Conestoga: Native American town located near Lancaster, PA settled by Native Americans who had converted to Christianity. Town was the scene of a massacre by the so-called "Paxton Boys" in 1763.

Conversion: the act of changing one's beliefs from one religion to another.

Delaware: the collective name used for the Munsee and Lenape Indians.

Deed: a legal document that transfers property from one person to another and shows the legal right to possess it

Diplomacy: negotiation between nations

Iroquois: powerful confederacy of Indian tribes that once occupied the area of New York State.

Leni Lenape: name for the group of Algonquin-speaking Indians that once lived in the lower Delaware Valley.

Massacre: the killing of large numbers of people

Missionary: a person who spreads the teachings of a religion by attempting to convert others to a particular doctrine or program

Native American: indigenous or original inhabitants of the Americas prior to European arrival.

Negotiator: an individual who has the authority to represent or speak for a nation or other entity during a diplomatic conference or other process whereby diverse parties resolve disputes, agree upon courses of action, or bargain for advantage.

Paxton Boys: group of frontier settlers who attacked Indians living at Conestoga, Lancaster County, in 1763.

Peltry: animal skins, or pelts, an important Native American trade good.

Petition: request to an authority, most often in the form of a document addressed to a government official and signed by numerous individuals.

Quaker: member of the pacifist religious group officially known as the Religious Society of Friends that originated in England in the 17th century.

Squatter: someone who occupies an unoccupied or abandoned land that the individual does not own.

Treaty: binding agreement under international law.

Wampum:  from the Algonquin wampumpeag, polished shell beads often strung into belts in designs representing events of significance. Leni Lenape and other Algonquin groups used wampum as symbolic gift and currency in trade with European colonists.

Shawnee:  Native American Algonquin group originally residing in the Ohio Valley region of Pennsylvania and Ohio.

Walking Purchase: name given to an agreement made in 1737 between the Penn family and the Delawares that resulted in the Indians feeling cheated out of land.

Worldview: an integrated system of deeply held, largely unconscious beliefs and concepts about the universe (natural and/or supernatural), society and the self.