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 an ongoing journey, with many paths to follow. My family’s Dutch ancestry carries both well-documented and carefully obscured Iroquoian and Algonquian lines from the Northeast. The name Catoneras appears again and again, tracing to both my Grampa Jesse Bowman and my Grama Marion Dunham, who raised me. Many of these family lines converged repeatedly at Schaghticoke, and again at Greenfield Center, New York (see slides below the PDF), where I was born and raised. Our extensive kinship ties to Catoneras—traced through the Van Tassel, Gardenier, Berg, Kinderhook, Storm, See, Van Antwerp, Palmer, Dunham, Foster, Mann, Manning, Conklin, Buckhout, and Devoe family lines, many of whom are cited in this document by Daniel Van Tassel of Tarrytown—illuminate a continuous, enduring, and intricately interwoven tapestry of relation.