August 29, 1756
New Jersey established the first American Indian Reservation, on the edge of the Pine Barrens, near Burlington. Traditional Lenni Lenape lands encompassed the Delaware Valley of eastern Pennsylvania and western New Jersey from the Lehigh River south into eastern Delaware and the Delaware Bay, and western Long Island, New York Bay, and the Lower Hudson Valley in New York. In exchange for this 3,000 acres, they agreed to renounce all further claim to lands anywhere else in New Jersey, except for the right to fish in all the rivers and bays north of the Raritan River, and to hunt on unenclosed land. This community of Lenni-Lenape (Delaware) Indians did not last very long. The remnants of the tribe were eventually removed to Western reservations. Most Lenape now reside in the US state of Oklahoma, with some communities living also in Wisconsin, Ontario (Canada.) Some Delaware’s migrated to Texas; In 1847, John Meusebach was assisted by Delaware Jim Shaw in settling the German communities in the Texas Hill Country. In 1859, the US government forced the last of the Texas Delaware to move to Oklahoma.
August 29, 1970
Some 30,000 Chicanos gathered in East Los Angeles’ Laguna Park at the culmination of the Chicano National Moratorium to protest the disproportionate number of deaths of Chicano soldiers in Vietnam. Three died when the anti-war march turned violent. The Los Angeles Police Department attacked and one gunshot, fired into the Silver Dollar Bar, killed Ruben Salazar, a Los Angeles Times columnist and a commentator on KMEX-TV.
