The World Turned Upside Down: Indian Voices from Early America

Importance of Manhattan Island

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A missionary named John Heckewelder provides an account of the Dutch meeting Manhattan Island Indians, and then plying them with alcohol. The island became known as Manhattan, "the place where intoxication happens."