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Alessia Anastassopulos - Brooklyn, NY, United States

from Rocks I Have Taken by Maria Sappho

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Peter Minuit purchased Manhattan from the Canarsie Indians, in 1626. Canarsie of Keskachauge are a people apart of a larger Native American confederacy called the Lenape.When the Dutch arrived and settled in Manhattan the Lenape soon began to die of small pox, war, and poverty as their land was slowly stripped from them . William Kieft demanded payment from the remaining Lenape people on the grounds that the West India Company provided them with “protection” from other tribes. This eventually leading to the bloody Keift’s War of 1643. Luckily the British captured the Dutch territory in 1674, and turned all the growing villages into the gleaming prize of New York for the British crown. Not much changed but in 1702 the English enacted a law that made African American’s property. By 1750 only 10% of the Lenape population remained.

A chieftain named Gauwane lived in Gowanus.
Native trails turned to major roads (see picture, Indian Villages, Paths, Ponds and Places in Kings County, Photo: Brooklyn Historical Society).
Much of what makes New York look like New York was built on the back of Natives. The Empire State Building. The George Washington Bridge. The United Nations. The Woolworth Building. 30 Rock. The Seagram Building. Lincoln Center. The Waldorf Astoria. Since 1916 Mohawk American ironworkers made their way to New York to work on the Hell Gate Bridge. Akwesasne (which straddles Ontario, Quebec, and New York State) and Kahnawake (near Montreal), also immigrated to Brooklyn in the 1920s to help build the skyscrapers which iconising the city today.

This rock was taken in Prospect Park, near my house. Propsect Park was the home to many Native Americans, and their road through the land that became the park, is now still used as East Drive.

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www.thirteen.org/brooklyn/history/history2.html
brooklyneagle.com/articles/2019/05/02/ask-a-historian-what-happened-to-brooklyns-native-american-tribes/
eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/moses2015/2010/07/12/introduction-to-native-americans-of-brooklyn/
www.6sqft.com/this-1946-map-shows-how-native-american-trails-became-the-streets-of-brooklyn/
viewing.nyc/map-of-the-native-american-trails-that-evolved-into-brooklyns-major-arteries/
www.6sqft.com/men-of-steel-how-brooklyns-native-american-ironworkers-built-new-york/

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from Rocks I Have Taken, released April 30, 2020
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