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Hackensack was the exonym given by the Dutch colonists to a band of the Lenape, or Lenni-Lenape ("original men"), a Native American tribe. The name is a Dutch derivation of the Lenape word for what is now the region of northeastern New Jersey along the Hudson and Hackensack rivers. While the Lenape people occupied much of the mid-Atlantic area ...
Hackensack map c. 1896. The earliest known inhabitants of the area were the Lenni Lenape, an Algonquian people who became known to settlers as 'the Delaware Indians.' They lived along a river they called Achinigeu-hach, or "Ackingsah-sack", which translates to stony ground—today this river is more commonly known by the name 'the Hackensack River.' [29] A representation of Chief Oratam of the ...
Oratam (or Oritani/Oratamin) [1] was sagamore, or sachem, of the Hackensack Indians living in northeastern New Jersey during the period of early European colonization in the 17th century. Documentation shows that he lived an unusually long life (almost 90 years) and was quite influential among indigenous and immigrant populations.
Hackensack people, a Native American tribe from the area now known as the Gateway Region of northeastern New Jersey, U.S. Places. Hackensack, Minnesota, U.S.
The Tappan and the Hackensack actually were but one tribe and members of it were called either by one name or another according to their dwelling place. [6] They, as well as the Raritan , Wappinger , Manhattan (also known as " Manhattoe "), were collectively known as the River Indians.
At the time of European settlement, the area was largely the territory of the Acquackanonk Raritan, Tappan, and Hackensack Native American tribes. The Munsee lived in the colony's northwestern reaches, the Highlands, while the Wappinger lived to the northeast in the Hudson Valley.
The meadowlands, river and city, the Lenape Hackensack tribe and their territory, take their name from site of semi-permanent encampment on the neck between the river and Overpeck Creek, near the Teaneck Ridge. Variously translated as place of stony ground [77] or place of sharp ground. [8]
That year also saw the beginning of armed conflict with the Hackensack tribe of present-day New Jersey with the murder of two Dutch colonists. In February 1643 the Wesquaesgeek were attacked by musket-wielding Mohawk [ 4 ] from the vicinity of Fort Orange and sought shelter on Manhattan and in Hackensack territory.