6/20/2023 0 Comments Lake george new york weather![]() ![]() ![]() One map of the area from 1771 shows the region as a blank space in the northeastern corner of New York. The early European perception of the Adirondacks was of a vast, inhospitable wilderness. The Jesuit missionary Isaac Jogues became the first recorded European to travel through the center of the Adirondacks, as the captive of a Mohawk hunting party, in 1642. European presence in the area began with a battle between Samuel de Champlain and a group of Mohawks, in what is now Ticonderoga in 1609. These were the groups that the first European explorers of the area encountered. A group of Algonquian people, known as the Mahicans, also occupied the region, particularly the Hudson River Valley. ![]() According to Haudenosaunee historian Rick Hill, the region was considered a ' Dish with One Spoon,' symbolizing shared hunting resources between the groups. Both groups claimed the Adirondack Mountains as hunting grounds. The first Iroquoian peoples, the Mohawk (or Kanyengehaga) and the Oneida (or Oneyotdehaga), arrived in the Adirondack region between 4,000 and 1,200 years ago. By the time of the Owasco culture, around 0 AD, maize and beans were being cultivated in the Adirondack uplands. Transitioning from the Archaic Period to the Woodland period, multiple different cultures- Sylvan Lake, River, Middlesex, Point Peninsula, and Owasco cultures- replaced the Laurentian culture over time. Over the next 11,000 or so years, the region's climate slowly warmed, and forests began to replace the original tundra. Evidence for their presence in the Adirondacks includes a projectile point of red-brown chert found in 2007 at the edge of Tupper Lake. These Archaic period people, known as the Laurentian culture, were semi-nomadic hunter-gatherers. Lawrence River Valley and settled along the shores of the Champlain Sea around 13,000 BC. The first group to move into the area came south from the St. Humans have lived in the region of the Adirondack Mountains since the Paleo-Indian period (15,000 to 7,000 BC), shortly after the last ice age. Human history Ī 1876 map of the Adirondacks, showing many of the now obsolete names for many of the peaks, lakes, and communities In 1837, the mountains were named Adirondacks by Ebenezer Emmons. Such words were strongly associated with the region, but they were not yet considered a place name an English map from 1761 labels the area simply Deer Hunting Country. The Mohawks had no written language, so Europeans used various phonetic spellings of the word, including Achkokx, Rondaxe, and Adirondax. He explained that the word was used by the Iroquois as a derogatory term for groups of Algonquians who did not practice agriculture and therefore sometimes had to eat tree bark to survive harsh winters. Another early use of the name, spelled Rontaks, was in 1729 by French missionary Joseph-François Lafitau. He spelled it Adirondakx and said that it stood for Frenchmen, meaning the Algonquians who allied with the French. The earliest written use of the name was in 1635 by Harmen Meyndertsz Van Den Bogaert in his Mohawk to Dutch glossary, found in his Journey into Mohawk Country. The word Adirondack is thought to come from the Mohawk word ha-de-ron-dah meaning "eaters of trees". ![]()
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