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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)] 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…
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…