Native New Yorkers : The Legacy of the Algonquin People of New York

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 -- Munsee Vocabulary -- Twelve Levels Of Algonquin History In New York State -- Verrazzano Diary Letter To Francis I Of France -- Munsee Letter To President Zachary Taylor -- Nimham Lineage -- Time Line Of Lenape History. Evan T. Pritchard. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [471]-477) And Index. When 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 Chronicles the history of the Algonquin people in the area that is now New York, discussing the impact their culture had on the development of New York