Sh#t Your Ego Says: Strategies to Overthrow Your Ego and Become the Hero of Your Story by James McCrae
Author:James McCrae
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hay House, Inc.
Published: 2017-02-02T05:00:00+00:00
CHAPTER 13
THE CITY IS KILLING ME
Before Europeans arrived in North America, a group of indigenous people called the Lenapes was living in modern-day Delaware, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. The Lenapes (which translates to “the real people”) lived off the land and tended it with the care of a momma bear caring for her cubs. And what land it was. Rich forest, dense with wildlife, was cut by rivers and streams and extended from the eastern seaboard beyond the western horizon. The prize jewel of this lush landscape was a small island, 13 miles long, tucked between two rivers that merged into the Atlantic Ocean. The island was called Mannahatta.
Mannahatta, which is modern New York City, was a place of ecological astonishment. Home to animal and plant diversity surpassing most national parks, it was a wildlife sanctuary which remained, apart from the occasional native wigwam and campfire, untouched by civilization. Foreshadowing the island’s destiny as a global melting pot, bears, wolves, beavers, mountain lions, otters, elk, and over 230 types of birds co-inhabited 33 square miles of open air from present-day Inwood to Battery Park. Mannahatta was preserved by the Lenapes for centuries until a September afternoon in 1609 when a Dutch flyboat captained by Henry Hudson made a fortuitous right turn in the North Atlantic Ocean.
Henry Hudson’s mission was believed to be a failure. He never discovered the Northwest Passage between the Netherlands and India that he had been commissioned to find. Yet failure can open doors that were not known to exist. Sailing into the nameless river, Henry Hudson’s eyes widened as he considered the economic potential of the plentiful island. His crew disembarked to survey the land. They traded goods with the natives and eventually took word of their discovery back to the Netherlands. In 1624, through violence and heavy-handed negotiation, the island of Mannahatta become a Dutch settlement. The first draft of modern Manhattan, whose forest traffic was already jammed with beavers and seagulls, was called New Amsterdam.
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