The Last Algonquin (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Theodore L. Kazimiroff, Jr.
- First Published: 1982
- Time of Work: 1840–1925
- Setting: Hunter’s Island, Pelham Bay, New York; Manhattan and Staten islands; New Jersey; Pennsylvania; and the Hudson River area
- Principal Characters: Joe Two Trees, Ted Kazimiroff, Cass, Sheila, Kane
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Culture, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Love or romance, Betrayal, Friendship, Native Americans or American Indians, Storytelling, Pets
- Locales: New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey
Form and Content
In The Last Algonquin, Theodore Kazimiroff recounts the friendship that his father shared as a boy with an aging Algonquin Native American. Joe Two Trees was discovered by the young Kazimiroff on Hunter’s Island in New York’s Pelham Bay area in 1924. Denied the company of other Algonquins after the death of his parents, and believing himself to be the sole remaining member of his clan, Two Trees preserved the tribal ways that he had been taught and shared this heritage over the period of a year with the author’s father.
The story recounts...
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