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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 → |
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Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] occurred about 1750. The most distinguished man of the Mabicans was Captain HENDRIK AUPAUMUT, subsequently known as Captain HEN DRIK, who appears to have sustained the most important rela tion to his tribe and to the…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] sage of the Delaware* had already shut his mouth, and he believed that in the course of the next summer he would ' be brought down from the Wabash, to the ground from which his ancestors were created,' and so it prov…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] found in all nations, whose record is marred by the weaknesses of age. " It is not conceived necessary to digress or deny the fact that Noah got drunk." x 1 History of Indian Nations, part v, 518, etc. APPENDIX. 327 …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] him no concern However, I could not forget his words. They constantly recurred to my mind. Even when I slept I dreamed of that blood which Christ shed for us. This was something different from what I had ever before …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] APPENDIX. 329 congregation at Shekomeko, and discharged its duties with credit. He subsequently accepted the chieftaincy of the Mahi-cans of the Delaware country and represented them in the con ferences with Johnson,…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] The facts stated in the case, as reported by the lords of trade, on the hearing of NIMHAM, who visited England, for that purpose, are " that the tract of land, the property and possession whereof is claimed by these …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] of 1697, but only of a small part of it; x that finding themselves by these claims likely to be dispossessed of their patrimonial
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] 2 Phillipse did not live to enjoy his ill-York $500,000 in six per cent stocks for gotten lands. On his death they became the title which he had acquired. the property of his father, and afterwards 3 Simcoe' s Milita…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Major Ross to conduct the corps to the heights, advanced to the road, and arrived without being perceived, within ten yards 42 332 HUDSON RIVER INDIANS. of the Indians. They had been intent on the attack on Eme-rick'…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Simcoe, and was on the point of dragging him from his horse, when he was killed by Wright, his orderly Hussar. The Indians fought most gallantly; they pulled more than one of the cavalry from their
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] he had simply failed to note the inflections which constituted an important principle of the language. But notwithstanding the publication of Eliot's grammar in 1666, and the observations of the Jesuit and Moravian p…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Edwards says that the Mabi-can was spoken u by all the Indians throughout New England; " that though each tribe had " a different dialect," the language was " radically the same." Yet the Algonquin of the Mablcans wa…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] 336 HUDSON RIPER INDIANS. to the Mahikan; only the former generally place the accent upon the last syllable. The Ottawa is nearly related to the Shawanose, but the Chippewa more immediately to the Delaware. The langu…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] The Mahican has been preserved, partially at least, as has also to some extent the Long Island, — the latter extending along the east side of the river as far as the Highlands, where it met the Wappanoos, which has b…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Earth, in Long Island, is keagb; in Massachusetts, abke; in Mahican, akek; in Minsi, acbgi; in Delaware, aki, akbki. But while the peculiar dialects of the valley have been lost, or have at best an imperfect preserva…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] The object in view has been attained by various means of the same tendency and often blended together : a multitude of inflections properly so called; a still greater num ber of compound words, sometimes formed by th…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] or whose curiosity prompts them to the study, will consult the original. Grammar of the Algonquin Language. I. Alphabet. The Algonquin possesses all the vowel sounds as heard in far, fate, fall; met, meet; shine, pin…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] APPENDIX. 341 whether living or dead; but neck, back, heart, windpipe, take the inanimate form. In like manner eagle, swan, dove, are distinguished as animates; but beak, wing, tail, are arranged with inanimates. So …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] inflections which the pronouns take for tense, or rather, the auxiliary verbs, have, had, shall, will, may, etc. This class embraces the preformative or prefixed pronouns. The inseparable suffixed or subformative pro…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] sounds. If we compare this principle to a thread, parts of which are white, black, green, blue and yellow, the white may stand as the symbol of five vowelic classes of words in a, the 350 HUDSON RIPER INDIANS. black …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] n. 6 or on.. ii or iin CLASS OF CONJUGATIONS.. in class a in class a 6. Radices. The Algonquin language is founded on roots or primary elements having a meaning by themselves. As waub, to see; paup, to laugh; wa, to …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] gluten is precisely that to which the closest attention is required to trace its syntax. 7. Word-Building. The accretive system upon which the language is based is most clearly illustrated by analysis. Waub is, appar…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] O gin e bug o qua,.... Woman of the rose. O bub bau mwa wa ge zbig o qua, Woman of the murmuring of the skies. The formation of geographical names is no exception to the rule. Wombi, in the Natick, or Massachusetts d…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] e., " Bright stream flowing through rocks." While it is perhaps impossible to translate many of the local and geographi cal names which are found in the valley of the Hudson, from the fact that the language was a mix…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] given by Mr. Eliot, the negative form of elementary words is matt a; the local inflection ett; the adjective great, missi; black, moot; white, wompi. 45 356 HUDSON RIVER INDUNS. * " The Indian languages also contain …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Thus, in the Algonquin, the syllable ac stands for land, earth, ground, soil; be, for water, liquid; bic, for rock, stone, metal, hard mineral; co for object; ke for country, precinct, or terri tory; os for pebble, l…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] by these elisions and transpositions, the number of syllables of which a new class of words shall consist, is a question to be predetermined. Expletive consonants, harsh gutturals, and double inflections, the pests o…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Long Island, as already stated, was called Sewanbackey. Among the localities, Occopoque (Riverhead), takes its name from accup, a creek. The Indian village of Accopogue was situ ated on the creek which enters Little …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] paid reverence as an evidence of the permanency and immuta bility of their deity. * No Indian name more frequently occurs in the history of the county than that of Weckquaesgeek, nor one the precise location of which…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] The Indian name for Tarrytown was Alipconck, " the place of elms." Sing-Sing takes its name from an Indian village called Ossing-sing, from ossin, a stone, and ing, a place, the " place of stones," or " stone upon st…