Manhattan to Minisink - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Manhattan to Minisink write by Robert S. Grumet. This book was released on 2013-06-26. Manhattan to Minisink available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Drivers exiting the New Jersey Turnpike for Perth Amboy, and map readers marveling at all the places in Pennsylvania named Lackawanna, need no longer wonder how these names originated. Manhattan to Minisink provides the histories of more than five hundred place names in the Greater New York area, including the five boroughs, western Long Island, the New York counties north of the city, and parts of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut. Robert S. Grumet, a leading ethnohistorian specializing in the region’s Indian peoples, draws on his meticulous research and deep knowledge to determine the origins of Native, and Native-sounding, place names. Grumet divides his encyclopedic entries into two parts. The first comprises an alphabetical listing of nearly 340 Indian place names preserved in colonial records, located by county and state. Each entry includes the name’s language of origin, if known, and a brief discussion of its etymology, including its earliest known occurrence in written records, the history of its appearance on maps, and the name’s current status. The book’s second section presents nearly 200 place names that, though widely believed to be of Indian origin, are “imports, inventions, invocations, or impostors.” Mistranslations are abundant in place names, and Grumet has ferreted out the mistakes and deceptions among home-grown colonial etymologies that New Yorkers have accepted for centuries. Complete with a concise history of Greater New York, a discussion of the region’s naming practices, a useful timeline, and four maps, this is an invaluable resource both for scholars and for readers who want a more intimate knowledge of the place where they live or visit.
First Manhattans
First Manhattans - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook First Manhattans write by Robert S. Grumet. This book was released on 2012-10-01. First Manhattans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A concise history of the Indians said to have sold Manhattan for $24 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. First Manhattans, a concise and lively distillation of the author's comprehensive The Munsee Indians, resurrects 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. With the four hundredth anniversary of Hudson's voyage to the river that bears his name, this book shows how Indians and settlers struggled, through land deals and other transactions, to reconcile cultural ideals with political realities. It offers a wide audience access to the most authoritative treatment of the Munsee experience—one that restores this people to their place in history.
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Library of Congress Subject Headings - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Library of Congress Subject Headings write by Library of Congress. This book was released on 2013. Library of Congress Subject Headings available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Library of Congress Subject Headings - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Library of Congress Subject Headings write by Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office. This book was released on 2007. Library of Congress Subject Headings available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Toll Facilities in the United States
Toll Facilities in the United States - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Toll Facilities in the United States write by . This book was released on 1985. Toll Facilities in the United States available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
