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Manhattan To Minisink: American Indian Place Names Of Greater New York And Vicinity,Used
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Drivers exiting the New Jersey Turnpike for Perth Amboy, and map readers marveling at all the places in Pennsylvania named Lackawanna, need no longer wonder how these names originated. Manhattan to Minisink provides the histories of more than five hundred place names in the Greater New York area, including the five boroughs, western Long Island, the New York counties north of the city, and parts of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut. Robert S. Grumet, a leading ethnohistorian specializing in the regions Indian peoples, draws on his meticulous research and deep knowledge to determine the origins of Native, and Nativesounding, place names.Grumet divides his encyclopedic entries into two parts. The first comprises an alphabetical listing of nearly 340 Indian place names preserved in colonial records, located by county and state. Each entry includes the names language of origin, if known, and a brief discussion of its etymology, including its earliest known occurrence in written records, the history of its appearance on maps, and the names current status.The books second section presents nearly 200 place names that, though widely believed to be of Indian origin, are imports, inventions, invocations, or impostors. Mistranslations are abundant in place names, and Grumet has ferreted out the mistakes and deceptions among homegrown colonial etymologies that New Yorkers have accepted for centuries.Complete with a concise history of Greater New York, a discussion of the regions naming practices, a useful timeline, and four maps, this is an invaluable resource both for scholars and for readers who want a more intimate knowledge of the place where they live or visit.
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