User:Robert Steven Grumet

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Born in the Bronx in 1949, received a B.A. degree (with honors) from the City College of New York in 1972, and awarded a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Rutgers University in 1979. Specialist in the ethnohistory and archaeology of Northeastern North American Indians with particular focus on the Munsee Indians of the Lower Hudson and Upper Delaware River Valleys. Retired from National Park Service as Archeologist GS-12-9 in 2002. Writer of numerous articles, reports, and reviews, wrote the Cultural Anthropology article in the Encyclopaedia Britannica Book of the Year from 1984 to 2000, author of Manhattan to Minisink (2008, forthcoming), Historic Contact (1995), Native American Place Names in New York City (1981), and Native Americans of the Northwest Coast (1979) and editor of Modernity and Mind (2004), Revitalizations and Mazeways (2003), Voices From the Delaware Big House Ceremony (2001), Journey on the Forbidden Path (1999), and Northeastern Indian Lives (1995).