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Who is John Heckewelder from The World Turned Upside Down: Indian Voices from Early America and what is their importance?
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Heckewelder was a Moravian missionary who wrote about the customs and history of native tribes. He describes the Dutch purchase of Manhattan Island from the indigenous tribe in one of his stories.