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Native New Yorkers : the legacy of the Algonquin people of New York
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- Creator
- Evan T. Pritchard
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Revised edition
- San Francisco : Council Oak Books, [2007]
- ©2007
- Physical Details
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- 445 pages : maps ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 1571781072, 9781571781079
- OCLC
- ocn123754868
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [425]-430) and index.
- Introduction -- Natives of New York City -- Naming of things ; How green was Manhattan ; Paradise for the living ; Walk around old Manhattan ; Exploring the ancient city : the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island ; Verrazzano and his legacy ; We belong to the earth ; Two-colored snake : a history of the Dutch occupation of New York ; World of the Lenape ; Sweet and full of meaning : the languages of Manhattan -- Legendary Hudson Valley -- Native New Yorkers east of the Hudson River : a trip through Westchester, Putnam, and Dutchess counties ; Head of the wolf : Orange and Ulster counties ; Walk down the Minisink Trail ; Native New Yorkers of stony country : Rockland County ; Native New Yorkers of the north--the Mohican : Dutchess, Columbia, Rensselaer, Washington, Saratoga, Schenectady, Albany, and Greene counties -- Long Island long ago -- Mysteries of Long Island ; Thirteen tribes of Long Island -- Conclusion -- Lenape exodus -- Epilogue -- Postscript -- Munsee vocabulary -- Verrazzano diary letter to Francis I of France -- Munsee letter to President Zachary Taylor -- Nimham lineage -- Time line of Lenape history