sentences:  It encompassed the drainage basin of the White River, along which the Delaware, a Native American people had settled, and from which the County takes its name.The Delaware people were moved to lands west of the Mississippi River in the 1840s.The county was once home to Tenskwatawa ("The Prophet"), a brother of Tecumseh who instigated a major Indian uprising in 1811 culminating in the Battle of Tippecanoe.