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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 (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] IN THE VALLEY OF HUDSON'S RIVER, THE VALLEY OF THE MOHAWK, AND ON THE DELAWARE: THEIR LOCATION AND THE PROBABLE MEANING OF SOME OF THEM. * * * * * BY E. M. RUTTENBER, _Author of "History of the Indian Tribes of Hudso…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Probably the reader will find geographical descriptions that do not apply to the places where the name is now met. The early settlers made many transfers as well as extensions of names from a specific place to a larg…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] There is no poetry in them--no "glittering waterfalls," no "beautiful rivers," no "smile of the Great Spirit," no "Holy place of sacred feasts and dances," but plain terms that have their equivalents in our own langu…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] That spoken around New York on both sides of the river, was classed by the early Dutch writers as Manhattan, as distinguished from dialects in the Highlands and from the Savano or dialects of the East New England coa…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Initials are badly mixed, presumably due in part at least, to the habit of Indian speakers in throwing the sound of the word forward to the penult; in some cases to the lack of an "Indian ear" on the part of the hear…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Most of these latter, however," he adds, "may be shown by strict analysis to belong to one of the two preceding classes, which comprise at least nine-tenths of all Algonquian local names which have been preserved." F…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] mountain." In some cases the locative takes the verbal form indicating place or country, Williams wrote "_Sachimauónck,_ a Kingdom or Monarchy." Dr. Schoolcraft wrote: "From _Ojibwai_ (Chippeway) is formed _Ojib-wain…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] "The adjective," wrote Horatio Hale, "when employed in an isolated form, follows the substantive, as _Kanonsa,_ 'house;' _Kanonsa-kowa,_ 'large house;' but in general the substantive and adjective coalesce." In some …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] The diacritical marks employed by Williams and Eliot in the English alphabet, and by Zeisberger and Heckewelder in the German alphabet, are helpful in pronunciations, but as a rule the corrupt local record orthograph…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] A few Dutch names that are regarded by some as Indian, have been noticed, and also some Indian names on the Delaware River which, from the associations of that river with the history of the State, as in part one of i…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Albert S. Gatschet and J. B. N. Hewitt, and to Mr. William R. Gerard, of New York. The compilation of names and the ascertaining of their locatives and probable meanings has interested me. Where those names have been…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Hudson's River and Its Islands. Muhheakun'nuk, "The great waters or sea, which are constantly in motion, either ebbing or flowing," was written by Chief Hendrick Aupaumut, in his history of the Muhheakun'nuk nation, …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] record on the river which now bears his name. Five years after Hudson's advent Adriaen Block wrote _Manhates_ as the name of what is now New York Island, and later, De Vries wrote _Manates_ as the name of Staten Isla…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Powell, Director of the Bureau of Ethnology, wrote me: "In the alphabet of this office the name may be transliterated _Kanoñnò'ge._ It signifies 'Place of Reeds.'" Perhaps what was known as the "Reed Valley" was refe…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Hackinsacks. Minnisais is not a record name. It was conferred on Bedloe's Island by Dr. Schoolcraft from the Ojibwe or Chippeway dialect, [FN] in which it means "Small island." * * * * * [FN] The Objibwe (Objibwai) w…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] of Helle"--now known as the Dardanelles--which received its Greek name from _Helle,_ daughter of Athamas, King of Thebes, who, the fable tells us, was drowned in passing over it. Probably the Dutch sailors regarded t…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] (Nelson's "Indians of New Jersey," 122.) In other words, the Indians conveyed places on the island, including specifically their "bushnet fishing-place," and by the later deed to Lovelace, conveyed all unsold places.…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Minnahanock, given as the name of Blackwell's Island, was interpreted by Dr. Trumbull from _Munnŏhan,_ Mass., the indefinite form of _Munnŏh,_ "Island," and _auke,_ Mass., "Land" or place. Dr. O'Callaghan's "Island h…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] on their way north and east." (Van Tienhoven, 1650.) "Where the Indians cross to bring their pelteries." (De Laet, 1635.) The crossing-place is now known as Pavonia. The path crossed the Spuyten Duyvil at Harlem and …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
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Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] "_Moskehtu,_ a meadow." (Eliot.) Papinemen (1646), Pahparinnamen (1693), Papirinimen (modern), are forms of the Indian name used interchangeably by the Dutch with Spuyten Duivel to designate a place where the tide-ov…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Mr. Riker's assignment of the name to the Spuyten Duivel passage is probably correct. The "neck, island or hummock" was a low elevation in a salt marsh or meadow. It was utilized as a landing place by the Indians who…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] better discharge of his duty, built fires at night, armed himself with sword and firebrands, vociferated loudly, and acted the character of a devil very well. At all events the African is the only historical devil th…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Gerard suggests "_P'skurikûppog_ (Lenape), 'forked, fine harbor,' so called because it was safely shut in by Tubby Hook, [FN-1] and another Hook at the north, the current taking a bend around the curved point of rock…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Wickquaskeck is entered on Van der Donck's map as the name of an Indian village or castle the location of which is claimed by Bolton to have been at Dobb's Ferry, where the name is of record. It was, however, the nam…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] A part of the territory of this tribe is loosely described in a deed of 1682, as extending--"from the rock Sighes, on Hudson's River, to the Neperah, and thence north until you come to the eastward of the head of the…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Wetquescheck." He did so, but the castles, three in number, strongly palisaded, were found empty. Two of them were burned. The inmates, it was learned, had gathered at a large castle or village on Patucquapaug, now k…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] [FN-1] December 1st, 1680, Frederick Phillips petitioned for liberty to purchase "a parcel of land on each side of the creek called by the Indians Pocanteco,... adjoining the land he hath already purchased; there to …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Y., ii, 237.) It seems to have been from the name of a sachem, otherwise known as Weskora, Weskheun, Weskomen, in 1685. _Wuski,_ Len., "New, young;" _Wuske'éne_ Williams, "A youth." [Illustration: SOUTHERN GATEWAY OF…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] and for making bread, or round loaves. (See Tuckahoe, L. I.) Kitchiwan, modern form; _Kitchawanc,_ treaty of 1643; _Kichtawanghs,_ treaty of 1645; _Kitchiwan,_ deed of 1645; _Kitchawan,_ treaty of 1664; the name of a…