Something that Terrie touches on very briefly in the first chapter of his book is the naming of the park. He provides a quotation in which Emmons proposes the name "Adirondack"(13) for a group of mountains in order to commemorate a tribe of natives who lived, or at least hunted, there. Terrie then digs deeper into the issue of naming land in America and how arbitrary the names really were, despite the intentions of people like Emmons in honoring natives who may have once been there or using the real, Native names of places. The issue with naming was that there was and had never been any evidence that Adirondack land had been named by Native Americans, despite the Romantic belief that land had been named. I believe that the lack of naming by native populations in America exposes a fundamental cultural split between Europeans and the Natives. Inherent to naming something, particularly after one's self, is ownership or a claim to that place. This is exactly what European settlers began doing as soon as they landed in New England; they divided land in the Northeast arbitrarily and named the land immediately (thus producing a unit of a commodity to sell which had some kind of legal backing). I think this need to name places stemmed from the economic interest of Europeans in the New World. I find it interesting that in the thousands of years that Native Americans roamed the Adirondacks, they found no need to assert individual, or even tribal, claim to land in the park, but within decades of the introduction of Europeans to the area, naming and claiming of land in the Northeast had such deep roots.