T.M. Rives believes our understanding of the Native Americans that inhabited the New York area is encapsulated in a single story the sale of Manhattan for $24. But encoded in this story and the symbols that represent it are fundamental misconceptions about the native population. Thorough analysis and often very funny deconstruction of this myth and its imagery, Rives gives us a much deeper and more valuable look at the complex culture Europeans discovered when they settled New York City.

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