Talk:Canarsie, Brooklyn
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"The famous sale of Manhattan for 24 guilders was actually a scam on the part of the Indians. The Indians who did the selling were from what is now Canarsie; they did not possess Manhattan at all."
Manhattan was "purchased" for 60 guilders, often described as having the value of $24.
It is by no means established that the Munsee who "sold" Manhattan were from what is now Canarsie. The only extant contemporaneous information on the transaction consists in one line in a letter.
What this wiki article is publishing is apocrypha and legend.Zuzim 15:22, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
