Fishes of Oklahoma - Softcover

Rudolph J. Miller (author) & Henry W. Robison (author)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0806136103 ISBN 13: 9780806136103

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004

Synopsis

A concise history of the Indians said to have sold Manhattan for $24The Indian sale of Manhattan is one of the world's most cherished legends. Few people know that the Indians who made the fabled sale were Munsees whose ancestral homeland lay between the lower Hudson and upper Delaware river valleys. The story of the Munsee people has long lain unnoticed in broader histories of the Delaware Nation.First Manhattans, a concise and lively distillation of the author's comprehensive The Munsee Indians, resurrects the lost history of this forgotten people, from their earliest contacts with Europeans to their final expulsion just before the American Revolution. Anthropologist Robert S. Grumet rescues from obscurity Mattano, Tackapousha, Mamanuchqua, and other Munsee sachems whose influence on Dutch and British settlers helped shape the course of early American history in the mid-Atlantic heartland. He looks past the legendary sale of Manhattan to show for the first time how Munsee leaders forestalled land-hungry colonists by selling small tracts whose vaguely worded and bounded titles kept courts busy—and settlers out—for more than 150 years.Ravaged by disease, war, and alcohol, the Munsees finally emigrated to reservations in Wisconsin, Oklahoma, and Ontario, where most of their descendants still live today. With the four hundredth anniversary of Hudson's voyage to the river that bears his name, this book shows how Indians and settlers struggled, through land deals and other transactions, to reconcile cultural ideals with political realities. It offers a wide audience access to the most authoritative treatment of the Munsee experience—one that restores this people to their place in history.

About this title

About the Author

Rudolph J. Miller, an artist, is Professor Emeritus of Zoology at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma. He has twenty-eight years of experience studying and collecting Oklahoma fishes.

Henry W. Robison is coauthor of Amphibians and Reptiles of Arkansas, Fishes of Arkansas, and Only in Arkansas: A Study of the Endemic Plants and Animals of the State. He is Professor of Biology at Southern Arkansas University, Magnolia, Arkansas.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0806136103
• ISBN 13: 9780806136103
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 478