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The Munsee Indians - A History (Paperback)
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The Munsee Indians - A History (Paperback)
Series: The Civilization of the American Indian Series
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The Indian sale of Manhattan is one of the world's most cherished
legends. Few people know that the Indians who made the fabled sale
were Munsees whose ancestral homeland lay between the lower Hudson
and upper Delaware river valleys. The story of the Munsee people
has long lain unnoticed in broader histories of the Delaware
Nation. Now, The Munsee Indians deftly interweaves a mass of
archaeological, anthropologi-cal, and archival source material to
resurrect the lost history of this forgotten people, from their
earliest contacts with Europeans to their final expulsion just
before the American Revolution. Anthropologist Robert S. Grumet
rescues from obscurity Mattano, Tackapousha, Mamanuchqua, and other
Munsee sachems whose influence on Dutch and British settlers helped
shape the course of early American history in the mid-Atlantic
heartland. He looks past the legendary sale of Manhattan to show
for the first time how Munsee leaders forestalled land-hungry
colonists by selling small tracts whose vaguely worded and bounded
titles kept courts busy-and settlers out-for more than 150 years.
Ravaged by disease, war, and alcohol, the Munsees finally emigrated
to reservations in Wisconsin, Oklahoma, and Ontario, where most of
their descendants still live today. Coinciding with the four
hundredth anniversary of Hudson's voyage to the river that bears
his name, this book shows how Indians and settlers struggled, in
land deals and other transactions, to reconcile cultural ideals
with political realities. The result is the most authoritative
treatment of the Munsee experience-one that restores this people to
their place in history. This book is published with the generous
assistance of Furthermore: a program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund.
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