A home geography of New York city . A Manhattan Village Part II — Stories of Local History CHAPTER XX NEW YORK CITY AS THE HOME OF THE INDIAN In the year 1609 the present city of New York was a wild andbeautiful country. The people who lived here were Indians. Theyhad red or copper-colored skin, black eyes, and black hair like theIndians seen in the West to-day. They lived in villages generallysituated near the water, and supported themselves principally byhunting and fishing. When you visit the Museum of Natural History to view thevarious articles found on the sites of old Indian villages and
A home geography of New York city . A Manhattan Village Part II — Stories of Local History CHAPTER XX NEW YORK CITY AS THE HOME OF THE INDIAN In the year 1609 the present city of New York was a wild andbeautiful country. The people who lived here were Indians. Theyhad red or copper-colored skin, black eyes, and black hair like theIndians seen in the West to-day. They lived in villages generallysituated near the water, and supported themselves principally byhunting and fishing. When you visit the Museum of Natural History to view thevarious articles found on the sites of old Indian villages and intlieir burying grounds, you will see in the cases cards on which are 111 112 HOME GEOGRAPHY OP NEW YORK CITY. A Bkave the words, Algonkin Indians of New York city and cards show that all the Indians living here belonged to a race called the Algonkin race. The Algonkin race was divided intomany tribes, and these tribes weredivided again into many bands. Tlietribes and bands were known by differ-ent names, and sometimes they tooktheir names from the places where theylived. Some writers say that the Indianname for Hell Gate meant the whirl-pool, and for Manhattan island, placeof the whirlpool. The tribe that livedon the island was called the ]\Ianhat-tans, or the people of the place of the whirlpool. Other writerssay Manhattan means island and that Manhattansmeans people living on an island. There were alsoManhattan Indians in The Bronx and on Staten each of the five boroughs, and all along theshores of the Hudson river, there were a great manyIndian villages. The head man of each village wascalled a sachem or sagamore. Both words are Indianfor the English word chief. Th
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