Eagle Cries CD

A decade or more ago, I met Chief Leon Shenandoah who was a "Chief of chiefs" of the Iroquois when their Council was part of the review of an archaeological site in Fort Edward, New York part of a sewer line that turned up a multi-component site, including part of an old fort, once part a series of British forts that stretched down from Canada to the Hudson River in the now historic Champlain Canal direction. Grossman and Associates was involved in the archaeology when I went to work there under interesting circumstances, he was balancing that with work on a sewer line in Puerto Rico. We went on to evaluate EPA sites in NY and NJ including the site of the West Point Foundry (privately run by civilians, http://www.civilwarartillery.com/inventors/Parrott.htm) and the site of Civil War rifled cannons of Robert Parker Parrott in Cold Spring, NY. It was the modern site of heavy metal contamination from a firm making batteries for the NIKE missile defense system, that became obsolete, across the Hudson River from the West Point Military Academy and "next door" to their holding, Constitution Island. This is Joanne Shenandoah's music link. Leon Shenandoah's name was reported as "tah dah teh ho" (NY Times obit.), which she said means "head full of snakes" which is interesting as "Iroquois" has been reported to mean "real adders" thought by the Algonquian, who are in a different language family, north to Labrador along the East Coast of the U-S and Canada, Iroquoian spoken north to Ontario and south to North Carolina), his granddaughter's music, at least I think so.