Manhattan – Turtle Bay – Slaughterhouses – United Nations
Revealed by American Indian oral histories recorded in NATIVE NEW YORKERS book: Manhattan’s ‘ancient’ Turtle Bay was sandy beach, where turtles would lay eggs and also where American Indian women would birth children. After Whitey came along, the land eventually become blood-soaked by slaughterhouses. This land then became — somehow — its own “sovereignty” within … Read more