Richard C. Adams
Richard Calmit Adams (Delaware) was born in Wyandotte County, KS in 1864. His family was soon relocated from Kansas to lands in the Cherokee Nation, in what we now call Oklahoma. Adams wrote about Delaware culture and history, including The adoption of Mew-seu-qua, Tecumseh’s Father (1917) and A Delaware Indian Legend and the Story of Their Troubles (1899), which is the source material for the poems included here. He died in D.C., in his efforts to legally represent his people, in 1921.