The Munsee Indians, 262: A History Grumet Robert S.
The Munsee Indians, 262: A History Grumet Robert S. The Indian sale of Manhattan is one of the world's most cherished legends. The story of the Munsee people has long lain unnoticed in broader…
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The Munsee Indians, 262: A History Grumet Robert S.
The Indian sale of Manhattan is one of the world's most cherished legends. 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. 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.
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. Anthropologist Robert S. He looks past the legendary
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