Total Number Of Pages: 1
Source: Scanned from the original photograph which is 10 inches in height and 8 inches in width.
Language: English
Coverage: Unknown
Creators:
Red Thunder Cloud [Cromwell Ashbie Hawkins West]
Rights: No Known Copyright Restrictions
Description: The reverse reads:
"This is a fine study of Amelia Cuffee Halsey who was a Montauk of the Eastville Band of Sag Harbor. She was very much interested in the traditions of the tribe and was the mother of Emma and Walter Halsey. Mr. Halsey was a friend of the author's and from his lips I have recorded some interesting material which will be published in the near future.
The fact that men of the Montauk, Narragansett, Mohegan, Shinnecock, Wampanoag and Pequot Tribes shipped out as whalers was responsible for some inter-marriage between the tribes. Amelia was the daughter of Louisa Cotton Cuffee of the Narragansetts and Jason Cuffee of the Montauks. Her brothers and sisters were as follows, Nell, Nathan, Louisa, Melancton, and Christopher.
Her brother Nathan achieved considerable fame as the co-author of "Lords Of The Soil" a novel of a romance between a Montauk Indian Princess and an English soldier in the days of Lion Gardiner. With Lydia Jocelyn as co-author, Nathan Cuffee turned out an informative and a well written novel that is on the shelves of many Long Island Libraries.
See Photo No. 14 for another interesting glimpse of Amelia Cuffee Halsey."
