First Manhattans: A History of the Indians of Greater New York

A concise history of the Indians said to have sold Manhattan for $24

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.

First Manhattans, a concise and lively distillation of the author's comprehensive The Munsee...