Long Island and Rhode Island. In 1609, the English navigator Henry Hudson explored the harbor and purportedly landed at Coney Island. Adriaen Block followed in 1615 and is credited as the first European to determine that both Manhattan and Long Island are islands. Native American land deeds recorded by the Dutch from 1636 state that the Indians referred to Long Island as "Sewanhaka" ("Sewanhacky" and "Sewanhacking" were other spellings in the transliteration of Lenape). "Sewan" was one of the terms for wampum (commemorative stringed shell beads, for a while also used as currency by colonists in trades with the Lenape), and is
My Native Land (film) My Native Land (film) My Native Land (), also called China, My Native Land, is a Mandarin-language film, released in 1980 by Ta Chung Motion Picture Corporation () in Taiwan. It is a biographical film about the Hakka writer Chung Li-ho. The songs of the 1980 soundtrack album are sung by Teresa Teng. It was released as yuan xiangren () by Polydor Records and yuan xiangqing nong () by Kolin Records (). The songs written by Zhuang Nu () and Tony Wong () and "Evening Wind and Flower Scent" () are heard in the film. The soundtrack was re-released in