Millionaire returning $4M 'trophy' house to Indian tribe

An eccentric millionaire is giving Manhattan back to the American Indians — at least his small part of it. Jean-Louis Goldwater Bourgeois, 76, an architectural historian and activist for Native American causes, is in the process of transferring the deed of his $4 million, landmarked West Village house to a nonprofit controlled by the Lenape tribe, the original Manhattanites. “I have a romance with the history of the city, and I have been generally appalled that the land that the city is on has been taken by whites,” he told The Post. More News Hundreds brave weather to lay wreaths at Arlington Cemetery Lottery ticket worth $1,000 dropped in Salvation Army kettle “This building is the trophy from major theft. It disgusts me.” He said he feels “rage against what whites have done and some guilt, no, a lot of guilt, that I have profited from this major theft. The right thing to do is to return it.”