The Last Algonquin

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As recently as 1924, a lone Algonquin Indian lived quietly in Pelham Bay Park, a wild and isolated corner of New York City. Joe Two Trees used to be the last of his people, and that is the gripping story of his bitter struggle, remarkable courage, and constant quest for dignity and peace.

By the 1840s, among the members of Joe’s Turtle Clan had either been killed or sold into slavery, and by the age of thirteen he used to be on my own on the earth. He made his way into Manhattan, but used to be forced to flee after killing a robber in self defense; from there, he found backbreaking work in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. In spite of everything, across the time of the Civil War, Joe realized there used to be no place for him within the White world, and he returned to his birthplace to live out his life on my own-suspended between a lost culture and an alien one. Many years later, as an old man, he entrusted his legacy to the young Boy Scout who become his only friend, and here that young boy’s son passes it on to us.

Theodore Kazimiroff, the son of Joe Two Trees’s young confidant, writes historical, environmental, and natural history articles for a few magazines. He lives in Bayville, New York.

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