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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)] name of _Teohoken,_ from Iroquois generic _De-ya-oken,_ meaning "Where it forks," or "Where the stream forks or enters the Hudson." (J. B. N. Hewitt.) The little valley is described as "a picture of beauty and repose…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Between Warrensburgh and Glen's Falls the stream sweeps, in tortuous course with a wealth of rapids, eastward among the lofty hills of the Luzerne [FN-3] range of mountains, and at Glen's Falls descends about sixty f…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] district; but it may lead to the replanting of the much more expressive Iroquoian title, _Kohsarake,_ on some hill-top in the ancient wilderness. * * * * * [FN] The specific tribe called Algonquins by the French, wer…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Mohawk, the river so called--properly "the Mohawk's River," or river of the Mohawks--rises near the centre of the State and reaches the Hudson at Cohoes Falls. Its name preserves that by which the most eastern nation…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Presumably it was generations prior to the incoming of Europeans and from the discovery of the fire-producing qualities of the flint, which was certainly known to them and to other Indian nations [FN-1] in pre-histor…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Bruyas wrote in the Huron dialect, "_Okwari_, ourse (that is Bear); _Ganniagwari,_ grand ourse" (grand, glorious, superb, Bear), and in another connection, "It is the name of the Agniers," the characteristic type of …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] students of that dialect, nor any that have not been purely conjectural. One writer has read it: "From _Kaho,_ a boat or ship," commemorative of Hudson's advent at Half-Moon Point in 1609. Beauchamp repeated from Mor…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] The presumption that the name was Mohawk-Iroquoian was no doubt from the general impression that the falls were primarily in a Mohawk district, but the fact is precisely the reverse. The Hudson, on both sides, was he…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Intervale-Cowass or Kohas (Coas) meadows." (Pownal's Map.) [FN-2] The name having been submitted to the Bureau of Ethnology for interpretation, the late Prof. J. W. Powell, Chief, wrote me, as the opinion of himself …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] notice particularly after 1693-4, when the Tortoise tribe retreated from Caughnawaga and located their principal town on the west side of the stream a short distance south of its junction with the Mohawk, taking with…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Indian settlement disappeared years ago. [FN-2] A detachment of one hundred men, sent out for that purpose, surprised the castle on the 29th of October, 1779, making prisoners of "Every Indian inmate." The houseless …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] 118.) By the DeWitt map of survey of 1790, Mabie's entire purchase extended east from the mouth of Aurie's Creek to a point on the east side of Schohare Creek, a distance of about four miles, the territory covering t…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] of the stream. _Carenay_ or _Kaneray,_ Van der Donck's name of the castle, may easily have been from _Kanitare._ The letters _d_ and _t_ are equivalent sounds in the Mohawk tongue. The aspirate _k_ was frequently dro…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Osserion, Osserrinon_) appears to be from the Mohawk dialect of the Iroquoian stock of languages. It signifies, if its English dress gives any approximation to the sound of the original expression, 'At the beaver dam…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] As already stated, the "best expert authority" of the Bureau of Ethnology reads _Onekagoncka_ as signifying, "At the junction of the waters," and _Osserueñon,_ in any of its forms, as signifying "At the beaver-dam." …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Senatsycrossy, written by Van Curler, in 1635, as the name of a Mohawk Village west of _Canowarode,_ seems to have been in the vicinity of Fultonville, where tradition has always located one, but where General John S…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Its name appears first in French notation, in Jesuit Relations (1667), _Gandaouagué._ [FN] Contemporaneous Dutch scribes wrote it _Kaghnawaga_ and _Caughnawaga,_ and Greenhalgh, an English trader, who visited the
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] a scaffolding or platform of any kind, and _ge,_ locative, the combination yielding "At or on a bridge." Bruyas wrote _Otserage,_ "A causeway," a way or road raised above the natural level of the ground, serving as a…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Etagragon, now so written, the name of a boundmark on the Mohawk, is of record "_Estaragoha,_ a certain rock." The locative is on the south side of the river about twenty-four miles above Schenectady. (Cal. N. Y. Lan…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] * * * * * On the Delaware. Keht-hanne, Heckewelder--_Kittan,_ Zeisberger--"The principal or greatest stream," _i. e._ of the country through which it passes, was the generic name of the Delaware River, and _Lenapewih…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] to Trenton are fourteen considerable rifts, yet all passable in the long flat boats used in the navigation of these parts, some carrying 500 or 600 bushels of wheat." _Meggeckesson_ (Col. Hist. N. Y., xii, 225) was t…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] They were a milder and less barbaric people than the Iroquoian tribes, with whom they had little affinity and with whom they were almost constantly in conflict until they were broken up by the incoming tide of Europe…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] [FN-2] "_Guwam;_ modifications, _Choam, Schawan._ The stem appears to be _Shawano,_ 'South,' 'Coming from the south,' or from salt water." (Brinton.)
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] or junction of the Lehigh Branch; the latter was on Minnisink Plains in New Jersey, about eight miles south of Port Jervis, Orange County. It was obviously known to the Dutch long before Van der Donck wrote the name.…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Brinton wrote: "From investigation among living Delawares, _Minsi,_ properly _Minsiu,_ formerly _Min-assin-iu,_ means 'People of the stony country,' or briefly, 'Mountaineers.' It is the synthesis of _Minthiu,_ 'To b…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] except by extension to it. Peenpack, (Paan, Paen, Pien, Penn) is given, _traditionally,_ as the name of a "Small knoll or rise of ground, some fifty or sixty rods long, ten wide, and about twenty feet high above the …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Sokapach, traditionally the name of a spring in Deerpark, means, "A spring." It is an equivalent of _Sókapeék,_ "A spring or pool." Neversink, the name quoted as that of the stream flowing to the Delaware at Carpente…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] town of Mamakating, and more recently, by local authority, at or near what is known as the "Manarse Smith Spring," otherwise as the "Great Yaugh Huys Fontaine," or Great Hunting House Spring. [FN-2] The meaning of th…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] entry: "The Beaver Kill or Whitenaughwemack." The date is 1785. The orthography bears evidence of many years' corruption. It may have been shortened to Willewemock and Willemoc, and stand for _Wilamochk,_ "Good, rich…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Mag., Second Series, 3, 49.) The lands spoken of were the recognized territorial possession of the chief ruler of the nation or tribe. The "squaw-sachem" [FN-3] may have held the title by succession or as the wife of…