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2010 Annual Gathering Tshirts now available!

2010 DOI Annual Gath­er­ing T shirts now avail­able!
100% cot­ton, sizes S, M, L, XL, 2XL, & 3XL in three styl­ish col­ors: green, orange and yel­low.
Sizes S thru XL are $15.00, 2XL are $16.00 and 3XL are $17.00 plus ship­ping, or if you are in the Trea­sure Val­ley you can pick them up or we can […]

Website Admin | January 21st, 2010 | Continued

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Feature Article #2

The Delawares of Idaho on Facebook!

Are you on Face­book? Now you can keep up with the tribe using these two handy links!
Click here for our pub­lic fan site, or copy and paste this link into your browser:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Delawares-of-Idaho-Inc/114805545279?ref=mf
Any­one can be a fan!
Click here for our invite only dis­cus­sion group, or copy and paste this link into your browser:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=133534412049
Check us out and request an […]

Website Admin | September 10th, 2009 | Continued

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Feature Article #3

Subscribe to the Newsletter via Email

Now you can sub­scribe to the Delawares of Idaho, Inc. newslet­ter via email! Save a few trees and save us the postage! Please use the form below and you will receive a few emails to make sure we have it set up cor­rectly! After you fill out the form, a con­fir­ma­tion email will be sent to your mail­box; please read and fol­low the instruc­tion inside the email to com­plete the sub­scrip­tion process.

Website Admin | July 9th, 2009 | Continued

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Feature Article #4

Pay Your Dues Online!

Dues are $20.00 each year. All mem­bers between 18 and 69 years of age should be pay­ing dues, they are $20.00 for each cal­en­der year.
You can pay them using the but­ton on this page, via Pay­Pal, or mail them in using a check or money order, no cash please. Click here for the address.
No mat­ter how you […]

Website Admin | January 1st, 2009 | Continued

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Feature Article #5

Big 8 Mining Corporation

In 1954, our group returned to Idaho and formed the a group-mining oper­a­tion called the Big 8 Min­ing Cor­po­ra­tion, in Elmore County. One of our mem­bers located what they called tung­sten ore, which was pretty valu­able at that time. He came back to Wyoming and noti­fied us that he had made this dis­cov­ery, so I made the deci­sion to move back to Idaho. So we came back , we filed on two thou­sand acres of min­ing prop­erty and about eight of us put in one whole sum­mer black-lighting.

Website Admin | March 10th, 2010 | Continued

About this Site

Wel­come to the offi­cial web­site of The Delawares of Idaho, Inc. We set up the web­site to bet­ter com­mu­ni­cate with our mem­bers, and share our infor­ma­tion with them and the gen­eral pub­lic. Here you can find infor­ma­tion about our group of Lenni Lenape peo­ple, and how we came to live in Idaho, so far away […]

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Ethan Wesley Creech

Wel­come Ethan Wes­ley Creech, born March 8th, 2010 at 9:53 in the evening. Con­grat­u­la­tions to his proud par­ents Adam & Michelle Creech.
It was a long day but they made it. He weighed 7.7 lbs and was 21.5 inches at birth.

8Mar2010 | Website Admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Mae Louise Kingston

Wel­come Mae Louise Kingston, born Feb­ru­ary 20th, 2010 at 1:44 in the after­noon. Con­grat­u­la­tions to her proud par­ents Peter & Michelle Kingston and big brother Sam!
Mae wasted no time com­ing into the world, and joined us a few weeks early. Mae was 6 lbs 3.2 oz, and 19 1/2″ long.

20Feb2010 | Website Admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Scott Menges & Melinda Vasquez to be Wed

Scott Menges, son of Mar­lene and Richard Menges, Grand­son of Clyde W. Creech Sr. recently got engaged to Melinda Vasquez. Scott and Melinda met in Boise in 2004. They plan to hold the cer­e­mony in Las Vegas, Nevada on April 1, 2010, with a reception/open house to be held at Scott’s par­ents house, on April […]

15Dec2009 | Website Admin | 1 comment | Continued
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Newsletter November 2009

This year’s annual meet­ing as held on June 13, 2009. The meet­ing was called to order by Chair­man Lanay B. Creech I at 11:45 A.M. An open­ing Prayer was offered by Clyde W. Creech Jr. Ros­marie De Boer was appointed Sec­re­tary for the Meet­ing. Atten­dance was taken; Alan Coates, Deb­o­rah Gravett and Pete Kingston were absent. Present at the meet­ing were Lanay B Creech, T. Wayne Har­ris, Deb Bor­jas, Ros­marie De Boer, Ivan Kingston, Randy Coates, Char­lotte Sim­mons, David Creech, For­est Hynek, Clyde Creech Jr., Tammy Bird and Ken Sere­duk. A quo­rum was declared.

1Nov2009 | Website Admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Families in Service

Ros­marie De Boer has sev­eral grand­chil­dren in the ser­vice of our coun­try;
Ail­sia Bax­ter in Kuwait
Ryan Gold­smith Afghanistan
Robert Guardi­ola in Iraq
Please join us in prayer for these and all of the men and women of the Armed Forces of the United States of Amer­ica who are now in harm’s way in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other parts of […]

10Oct2009 | Website Admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Oklahoma Indian Summer Festival

Our Chair­man, Lanay B. Creech I, attended the 22nd Annual Okla­homa Indian Sum­mer Fes­ti­val in Bartlesville, Okla­homa. Bartlesville is the tribal head­quar­ters for the recently re-recognized Delaware Tribe of Indi­ans whose ances­tors were forced off of the Kansas reser­va­tion in 1867.
Attend­ing the Indian Sum­mer Fes­ti­val with Chair­man Creech were his wife Judy Creech, tribal mem­bers Cris […]

19Sep2009 | Website Admin | 0 comments | Continued
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1920 — 2009 Margaret DeBoer

The mother in law of Ros­marie DeBoer, Mar­garet DeBoer, 89, of Nampa, passed away Tues­day, Sep­tem­ber 8, 2009 at her home in Nampa Idaho. Funeral arrange­ments were under the direc­tion of the Chapel of the Chimes Funeral Home, in Merid­ian, Idaho.
Mar­garet and her fam­ily immi­grated to the United States in 1959. She became a U.S. citizen […]

8Sep2009 | Website Admin | 0 comments | Continued
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DOI College Scholarship Fund Benefit Sale

Ros­marie De Boer is host­ing sale at her home in Merid­ian, Idaho. It will be our First Annual garage and bake sale ben­e­fit­ing the Delawares of Idaho Col­lege Schol­ar­ship Fund. It will be held at: 1385 Topaz Ave., Merid­ian, ID 83642 on Fri­day, August 21st — 10 am — 4 pm, Sat­ur­day August 22nd — 10 am — 4 pm and Sun­day, August 23rd — 10 am — 1 pm.

20Aug2009 | Website Admin | 0 comments | Continued