Native New Yorkers: The Legacy of the Algonquin People of New YorkWhen Giovanni da Verrazzano sailed into the New York Harbor in 1524, he climbed a hill and beheld "campfires as plentiful as stars, as far as the eye can see." Native New Yorkers reveals the city beneath The City, telling the fascinating story of the ancient Algonquin culture that maintained a thriving civilization in the greater New York area that is now a bustling metropolis. This book draws on a wide range of historical sources as well as extensive interviews with living Algonquin elders; exhaustively traces ancient trails, villages, burial grounds, and sacred sites and is supplemented with maps, a timeline of New York's Algonquin history, a glossary of Algonquin words, and a transcript of Giovanni da Verrazzano's letter to King Francis I of France describing his first glimpses of people of New York in 1524. |
Contents
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A WALK AROUND OLD MANHATTAN | 67 |
EXPLORING THE ANCIENT CITY The Bronx Brooklyn Queens and Staten Island | 95 |
VERRAZZANO AND HIS LEGACY | 115 |
WE BELONG TO THE EARTH | 133 |
THE TWOCOLORED SNAKE A History of the Dutch Occupation of New York | 155 |
NATIVE NEW YORKERS OF THE NORTH THE MOHICAN Dutchess Columbia Rensselaer Washington Saratoga Schenectady Albany and Greene... | 273 |
PART III LONG ISLAND LONG AGO | 305 |
THE THIRTEEN TRIBES OF LONG ISLAND | 319 |
CONCLUSION | 343 |
EPILOGUE | 369 |
MUNSEE VOCABULARY | 383 |
TWELVE LEVELS OF ALGONQUIN HISTORY IN NEW YORK STATE | 391 |
THE VERRAZZANO DIARY LETTER TO FRANCIS I OF FRANCE | 394 |
THE WORLD OF THE LENAPE | 173 |
SWEET AND FULL OF MEANING The Languages of Manhattan | 189 |
PART II THE LEGENDARY HUDSON VALLEY | 215 |
THE HEAD OF THE WOLF Orange and Ulster Counties | 229 |
A WALK DOWN THE MINISINK TRAIL | 243 |
NATIVE NEW YORKERS OF STONY COUNTRY Rockland County | 263 |
TIME LINE OF LENAPE HISTORY | 415 |
NOTES | 432 |
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 478 |
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Other editions - View all
Native New Yorkers: The Legacy of the Algonquin People of New York Evan T. Pritchard Limited preview - 2019 |
Native New Yorkers: The Legacy of the Algonquin People of New York Evan T. Pritchard No preview available - 2007 |
Common terms and phrases
According Albany Algonquin ancient Avenue Beaver became Bronx Brooklyn burial called Canarsie canoe Catskill Chief colony Corchaug Creek culture dialect Dutch earth east English Esopus fire French Giovanni da Verrazzano Hill House Hudson River Hudson Valley hundred Ibid Iroquois Jersey killed Kingston Lake land language later Lenape lived Long Island Manhattan Matinecock means Micmac miles Minisink Trail Mohawk Mohican Mohican Trail Montauk Mountain Munsee Museum Nation Native American Native New Yorkers Nimham Nissequogue Ohio Old Mine Road Orient Point Park path Pennsylvania Pequot population Ramapough region Renneiu rock Rockaway Route Ruttenber sachem sacred Sapohannikan settlement settlers Shawangunk Shawnee Shinnecock shore side Siwanoy spirit spot Staten Island stone story Street Susquehanna territory town trade translation treaty tree Tribes of Hudson's turtle Ulster County Unami Verrazzano village wampum Wappingers Wawarsing Weslager wigwams word Wyoming York City
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