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Lorna E. Thomas wrote a two-hour play "The coming of the Delawares" based on the story of how the Delawares came to live on the territory of the Six Nations, where they were accepted as friends and allies, excluded only from taking an active part in the government of the Six Nations Confederacy. The first performance of the play took place in August 1958 at Onedahgowah, or the Great Pine Forest Theatre, a natural amphitheatre near Smoothtown, on the Six Nations Reserve. The performance was also the first production of the newly formed Six Nations Theatrical Guild, on of the few First Nations 'little theatre' groups in Canada. A cast of 60 persons took part in the production.

Title assigned by Library and Archives Canada.

Copy transparency available: PA-181661

For another photograph of the play, see e011308066.

07-04-06-36

An article discussing the play was published in The Indian News 3, no. 2 (October 1958), p. 6.