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During the first millennium, strange men with red hair had floated westward on rafts from the coast of Peru. They discovered the island called Tahitutaumotu; a place scarcely named in the legendry of Polynesian tribes scattered across the South Pacific. A place shrouded in mystery; a place that had been impossible to find, and yet Baxter Copeland had found it Somehow, when no one, not even Baxter himself had known where-and perhaps more importantly when-to look, against all odds, he had found it It was in the labyrinthine lava tubes under the mountain that the red haired men from Peru had...

This book honors an Indian Nation that has been long forgotten. It is the Wiechquaeskeck of the Hudson River estuary area. They were a numerous, strong and healthy people when they first gazed at the white sails of European ships in Long Island Sound in the 16th century. Their story is distinct and unique, although they were part of the great Algonquian Woodland peoples, and belonged to the large group of Lenape, or Delaware, Indians in the New Jersey and New York area. From 17th century documents, we know many of their names, and much about their lives. They sank from a thriving tribe, to...