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In 2009, New York observed the 400-year anniversary of Henry Hudson's September 1609 discovery of Manhattan Island. This book chronicles the event from the perspective of the people who met Hudson's boat-which they at first thought was surely a great waterfowl-floating. Using all available sources, including oral history passed down to today's Algonquins, Evan Pritchard tells the story from various perspectives: that of Hudson's body guard, scribe,...
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Chicago Review Press
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2019
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English
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The year was 1609, and British explorer Henry Hudson had landed in North America at the bidding of the Dutch East India Company. But Hudson was not the first man to set foot on Manhattan Island. Henry Hudson and the Algonquins of New York chronicles this historic "discovery" with a hereto unknown perspective—that of the people who met Hudson's boat on their shore. Using all available sources, including oral history passed down to today's...
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A descendant of the MicMac Indians and tutored by Algonquin elders, Evan Pritchard has done much to bring recognition of this tribe's influence on the culture, history and government of the United States. He speaks of the crossroads" we now face, and how the ancient Algonquins knew a time would come when, what we do now matters more than it has ever mattered before."
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"This edition includes a new index and afterword; a pronunciation key to the Algonquin language; a comprehensive map of the Algonquin world; a list of the major Algonquin nations and what they call themselves; and the Seven Points of Respect for Native American Ceremonies.In No Word for Time, Evan T. Pritchard, a descendant of the Micmac people as well as a scholar, tells how he set out to learn more about his own native traditions through Algonquin...