Monday, September 6, 2010

400 years ago..

 manhattan 1609_map1 

1609. Manhattan as it was 400 years ago. It had its own people, called Lenape. Lenape for indigenous people means “the real people”.

They used to live in three basic communities and they had one dialect: Munsee.

These people never collected more the necessary and their food was coming from local sources. As they all were living directly from their land, the notion of property was not yet introduced.

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