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The Kitchawank, Wappinger, and Lenape peoples who lived here for 7,000+ years
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| Source | Passages | Words | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872) | 401 | 76,522 | Original → |
| Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906) | 223 | 40,085 | Original → |
| Various (1971) | 98 | 18,630 | Original → |
| Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994) | 73 | 12,771 | Original → |
| Various (1967) | 42 | 8,829 | Original → |
| Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962) | 39 | 7,958 | Original → |
| Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922) | 50 | 5,568 | Original → |
Passages
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Saratoga 180 Saaskahampka 49 Saugerties 162 Saukhenak 47 Schaghticoke 65 Schakaec-kemick 226 Scharon (Schroon) 184 Schenectady 202 Schodac 59 Schoharie 207 Schunnemunk 131 Scompamuck 59 Senasqua 29 Senatsycrossy 212 …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Wichquapakat 52 {53} Wichquaskeck 24 Wickqu-atenn-honck 144 Wieskottine 170 Wildmeet 161 Wihlahoosa 227 Wildwijk (Wiltwyck) 160 Winegtekonck 132 Wishauwemis 143 Woerawin 137 Wompenanit 74 Wopowag 99 Wyandanch (Sachem…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] stone mountain or hill that resounds or echoes--Echo Hill. _Narratschoan,_ the name of Butter Hill, is from _Nâï,_ "It is angular, it corners"--"having corners or angles." (Trumbull.) The letters _-atscho_ stand for …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] NEWBURGH, N. Y. CHAPTER I. HUDSON IN THE MAHICANITUK — His INTERCOURSE WITH THE INDIANS — THEIR TRADITIONS CONCERNING HIS VISIT. AILING under the auspices of the Dutch West India Company, HENRY HUDSON, an intrepid En…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] His return voyage began on the 2$d; on the 25th, 8 HISTORT OF THE INDIAN he anchored in Newburgh bay; reached Stony point on the ist of October; on the 4th, Sandy Hook, and sailed from thence Newburgh Bay. to Europe,…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] when they saw that their chief had recovered from his debauch they were glad. They returned to their castle and " brought tobacco and beads " and gave them to Hudson, " and made an oration, and showed him all the cou…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Very sorrowfully the old man, who had made the request in behalf of himself and his people, left the ship, although com forted with presents and with the assurance that his new friends would come again. Passing down …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] They were not suf fered to enter the vessel, and falling behind it, discharged their arrows at it; "in recompense whereof " six muskets replied "and killed two or three of them." The Indians retreated, and from a poi…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Their traditions repeat that almost with the appearance of Hudson in the lower bay, they began to collect on the shores and headlands, gazing in ' astonishment on the strange sight; that when they first saw the Half …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] them; that this would please him; but to return what he had given to them might provoke him, and be the cause of their being destroyed by him. And that since he believed it for the good of the nation that the content…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] and North river, the latter to distinguish it from the Connecticut or East river, and from the Delaware or South river, it has since been known. Henry Hudson. 16 THE INDIAN TRIBES CHAPTER II. ORIGIN, MANNERS AND CUST…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] mounds, finds them composed of different strata of earth, arranged horizontally to the very edge, and ascribes their creation to the power that shaped the globe into vales and hillocks.1 The mounds, it is true, may h…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] exceed us," their complexion tawny, inclining to white, their faces sharp, their hair long and black, their eyes black and sharp, their expression mild and pleasant," " greatly resembling the antique." The women, he …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] and paintings of the Catholic saints," and, he adds, " when a young Indian is dressed in this manner he would not say plum for a bushel of plums. But this decoration is seldom worn unless they have a young woman in v…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] They also wear hand bands or bracelets, curiously wrought, and inter woven with wampum. Their breasts appear about half covered with an elegantly wrought dress. They wear beautiful girdles, ornamented with their favo…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] was placed in a sitting posture, and beside it were placed a pot, kettle, platter, spoon, money and provisions for use in the other world. Wood was then placed around the body, and,.the whole covered with earth and s…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] had huts for temporary occupancy; but in the winter they were found in their castles which were rarely, if ever, left altogether. * Their weapons of war were the spear, the bow and arrows, the war club and the stone …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Gold, silver or copper coins they had none. Their standards of value were the hand or fathom of wampum, and the denotas or bags which they made themselves for measuring and pre serving corn. Such was their currency a…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] The article was highly prized After the discovery, the Dutch introduced as an ornament, and as such constituted an the lathe in its manufacture, polished and object of traffic between the sea coast and perforated it …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] seasons." Their women were the most experienced star-gazeVs, scarce one of whom could not name them all, give the time of their rising and setting, their position, etc., in language of their own. Taurus they describe…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] hunting. When taken prisoners and belt and fifteen bloody sticks sent by the about to suffer torture, they asked permis-Missiosagaes, the like is very common, sion to dance the kintc-kaye. The and the Indians use sti…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Some respect was paid to the rights of property, and whenever it was stolen, it was ordered returned.1 Although tne reputation attaches that they were a " thieving
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] other nations, yet they have high and low proportion to the number of troops under families; inferior and superior chiefs, his command. The rank of captain is whose authority remains hereditary in the neither electiv…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] If the belt was accepted, nothing more was said, that act being considered a solemn promise to lend every assistance; but if neither the hatchet was lifted up nor the belt accepted, it was understood that the tribe w…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] O thou Great Spirit above Take pity on me and preserve my life, Take pity on my children And I will make thee a sacrifice." And on my wife !. OF HUDSON'S RIVER. 33 his hand. A murderer was seldom killed after the fir…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] More sinned against than sinning, they left behind them evidences of great wrongs suffered, their enemies being the witnesses. 34 THE INDIAN TRIBES CHAPTER III. * NATIONAL AND TRIBAL ORGANIZATIONS, TOTEMIC CLASSI FIC…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] 1 The appellation, Iroquois, was first a Co/den's History of the Six Nations; applied to them by the French, because Schooler affs Notes on the Iroquois; Dun-they usually began and finished their dis-lap's Hist. Neiv…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] heard, and instantly all eyes were turned upward, where a com pact mass of cloudy darkness appeared, which gathered size and velocity as it approached, and appeared to be directed inevitably to fall in the midst of t…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] 1 Schoolcraffs Notes, 278, etc. pelled to join it. Those two tribes were "* Schooler affs Notes, 1 1 8, 1 20, etc. the younger, and the three others the older "The time when the confederacy was members of the confede…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] wards, for many years among them, people than the rest of the Indians, came The Dutch called them Mahikanders; down out of the inland parts of the con-the French knew them as the Mouri-tinent, and by force seized upo…