The 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
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