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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 → |
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Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] number. As they were coming from the west they found many great waters, but none of them flowing and ebbing like Muh heakunnuk until they came to Hudson's river; then they said one to another, this is like Muhheakunn…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] The sachem, or more properly king, remained at all times with his tribe and consulted their welfare; he had charge of the mnoti, or bag of peace, which contained the belts and strings used to establish peace and frie…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Uncas, it will be remembered, was a Pequot chief, and as such occupied a district of country between the Thames and the Connecticut, called Mohegoneak.2 After an unsuccessful conflict with the tribe to which he belon…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] name of their ancient river was changed to Thames, and their territory was to be con-sidered the property of the English. — Rhode Island Historical Society Collections, m, 177. 2 "And the identity of name between the…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] differed from them in their dialect, in the territory which they occupied, and in their alliances; having in the latter re spect a nominal representation with the authorities of New York and a positive one with Massa…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] e., halts of one year at a place), they reached the Namaesl Sipee (Mississippi), where they fell in with another nation, the Mengwe, or Iroquois, who had also emigrated from a distant country for the same purpose. Th…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] that it shall never be taken up again." In the controversy in reference to the Hardenbergh tract, in 1769, one Dr. Shuckburgh stated that he was present at a conference in 1734, in which the chiefs of Schoharie, Seth…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] The result of this treachery was a long and bloody war between the Lenape and their allies the Mengwe, on the one side, and the Allegewi on the other. The latter, after protracted contest, rinding them selves unable …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] and constituted-the head or king. For this reason, while he must be a member of that tribe, the selection of his successor, in case of his death, was made by the ruling chiefs of the other 1 The tribes acknowledging …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] the most impressive dignity. " No stranger could visit their councils without a sensation of respecxt." Law and justice, as civilized nations understand those terms, were to them unknown, yet both they had in a degre…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Their chiefs were poor and without revenue, yet the treasury of the nation was never exhausted. A more perfect democracy will never exist among the nations of the earth, and in this respect it was distinguished from …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] The Mohawks were represented by the totem of the Bear.1 The Lenni Lenapes had three totemic tribes : the Turtle, or 1 The Mohawk sachems who presented bear you know never yields while one their condolence at Albany, …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Below the Mohicans from Roeloff Jansen's kill to the sea, the Wolf again appeared as the totem of the Wappingers; while the Montauks bore the emblem of the Turtle.4 The prevailing totem of all the Hudson river canton…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] the great rivers Susquehanna and Dela-2 "The Bear tribe was considered the ware, and their southern.boundaries that leading totem and entitled to the office ridge of hills known in New Jersey by of chief sachem." — M…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] In regard to the former, the affidavit of King Nim-ham is on record, under date of October 13, 1730, in which it is stated that the deponent was "a River Indian of the tribe of the Wappinots, which tribe was the anci…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] In the Mohegan, as spoken at wolf, or a wolf of supernatural power, the present time by their lineal descend-This was the badge of arms of the tribe, ants, the Stockbridges of Wisconsin, rather than the name of the t…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] This fact appears more clearly in connection with contempo raneous events. The settlement of Canada was commenced in 1604, under a patent granted by Henry IV to Pierre du Gast. In 1609, the year in which Hudson ascen…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Champlain pearance of the Frenchmen, and the with four of his men, and accompanied peculiarity of their arms, produced extreme by some aoo Hurons, were engaged in astonishment in the Mohawk ranks; but exploring Lake …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] might come and have constant free trade with them, which was concluded upon." 2 It is not to be presumed that the nations named were present at one time, for they were not at peace with each other; there is no mentio…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] 1 Note 3, ante p. 35. Raffeix, the Brodhcad, n, 193. The wars of the five French missionary, writes, in 1672: nations against their own kindred, as in " God preserve the Andastcs, who have the case of the Andastes, E…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] and English writers, that, subsequently to the peace of 1673, they were repeatedly, indeed uniformly, employed as auxiliaries in the wars of the Five Nations and the British against the French."2 This conclusion is n…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] The former writer states that in the war of 1626, the Mohawks were successful and that the Mabicans fled and left their lands unoccupied; x the latter affirms that " war broke out " again in 1628, " between the Maike…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] the Hudson embraced in the Saratoga Champlain," (/£., 795), or with the very (Schuylerville) tract; yet from the John-plain statement by Talon : " Two Indian son Manuscripts it appears that they tribes, one called th…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] were is not stated, and can only be inferred from the subsequent treatment of the tribes who were parties to it, who are described as being " linked together in interest," and who were uniformly treated as equals eve…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] front, and from an ambush, attacked maiker, sagamore of Tappan, in behalf them and a great fight ensued. The of themselves and Neversincks, having Mohawks were finally put to flight by understood that peace had been …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Mahicans with the French Indians in n, 56, 115, 130; Memorials Moravian the war of 1704. ** The inhabitants of Church, i, etc. this Province who lived on the west side 8 The Pennacooks, Schoolcraft says, of that rive…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] efforts to secure their removal to the Brodheatfs New York, 11, 294. Hudson river after their disastrous defeat 2 The Indians began to have a value in the war under King Philip. At the in the hands of the French as w…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Their tradition that they were " the head of the Algonquin x nations,2 and held the Mengwe in subjection," is not without confirmation. The precise time at which the latter condition was reversed, cannot be stated; b…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] It was heard from the Bay of our grandfather had a long house, with a Gaspe to the valley of the Des Moines, door at each end, which doors were always from Cape Fear, and, it may be, from open to all the nations unit…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] selves in the power of the Iroquois. From that time they were the cousins of the Iroquois, and these were their uncle.1 While this tradition bears the impress of theory upon a sub ject in regard to which little was k…