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Book Review | The Journal of American History, 86.1 | The History Cooperative

The Algonquian Peoples of Long Island from Earliest Times to 1700. By John A. Strong. (Interlaken, N.Y.: Empire State Books, 1997. 368 pp. $40.00, isbn 1-55787-148-5.)

John A. Strong's carefully researched and meticulously detailed work opens up a long-neglected place and people. Algonquian Peoples of Long Island from Earliest Times to 1700 opens with a short discussion of the nature of tribes and the myth of Indian "extinction" in the area, linking the past and the present, and ends with a short note on current conditions among Native communities on the island. In between, half the book describes the development of Native society and culture through the arrival of Europeans, and the other half describes relations between Natives, Dutch, and English on Long Island through 1700. . . .

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