Anthropologist Grumet has written the first complete history of the Munsee people, best known as the tribe who (probably) sold Manhattan for $24 worth of trade goods. Living mainly in what is now New York and New Jersey, the Munsees were some of the first native people to be displaced from their traditional lands by European settlers. Despite more than a century of shrewed politicking by their leaders, the Munsees were forced to relocate by the mid-18th century, and their descendents have scattered to new homes in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, Canada, and Mexico. Based on archaeological and archival material, Grumet's volume admirably fills a hole in the scholarship on the native peoples of the U.S. mid-Atlantic region. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)