Catoneras / KaTonalôs (The Hunter)

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As I shared in my 1997 autobiography Bowman’s Store: A Journey to Myself—and continue to explore on my blog as new discoveries emerge—the search for deeply hidden Indigenous roots is a journey. I was raised by my maternal grandparents, in addition to hidden Abenaki roots (explored in Family Migration Stories), their Dutch ancestry carries both well-documented and carefully obscured Indigenous lines from the Northeast. The name Catoneras appears again and again in my mother's family lines. Many of these families converged at Schaghticoke, and again at Greenfield Center, New York (see slides below the PDF), where I was born and raised. Our kinship ties to Catoneras—traced through the Van Tassel, Cole, Van Wart, Koning, Putnam, Jones, Janse, Berg, Kinderhook, Storm, See, Van Antwerp, Palmer, Dunham, Foster, Mann, Manning, Conklin, Dewitt, Douw, Rice, Buckhout, and Devoe family lines, many of whom are cited in this document by Daniel Van Tassel of Tarrytown—illuminate a continuous, enduring, and interwoven tapestry of relation.