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The Shinnecock Indian Nation formally petitioned for recognition in 1978 and was recognized 32 years later in 2010. At a Senate Committee on Indian Affairs hearing, witnesses testified that the process was "broken, long, expensive, burdensome, intrusive, unfair, arbitrary and capricious, less than transparent, unpredictable, and subject to ...
Shinnecock Reservation is a Native American reservation for members of the Shinnecock Indian Nation in the town of Southampton in Suffolk County, New York, United States. It is the most easterly of the two Native American reservations in Suffolk County; the other being Poospatuck Reservation in the town of Brookhaven .
The Shinnecock Indian Nation is a federally recognized tribe of historically Algonquian-speaking Native Americans based at the eastern end of Long Island, New York. This tribe is headquartered in Suffolk County , [ 1 ] on the southeastern shore.
[1] [2] In 1994, she became one of the inaugural community health workers at Shinnecock Indian Health Services medical center. [3] In 2007, she became deputy assessor of the Town of Southampton, [4] and in 2013, she was promoted to tax assessor. [2] She has also served as a board member for the New York State Assessors Association. [2]
Poospatuck is situated in the southeast corner of Suffolk County's present-day Town of Brookhaven; and is the township's sole Indian reservation. On account of the innumerable tobacco shops, the reservation is known synecdochally as "Mastic Boges" by those in neighboring towns. It is about 70 miles or 1½ hours east of New York City.
Shinnecock Reservation, the tribe's reservation; Mohegan-Pequot language or Shinnecock language, an extinct Algonquian language formerly spoken by the Shinnecock; Shinnecock Canal, a canal that cuts across the South Fork of Long Island at Hampton Bays, New York; Shinnecock Inlet, an inlet connecting Shinnecock Bay and the Atlantic Ocean
The Shinnecock Indian Nation finally won federal recognition from the U.S. government in 2010, after a campaign which spanned decades. [3] Dennis also established the Shinnecock Reservation's first substance abuse recovery program during the 1980s. His program to combat substance abuse is still active, as of 2015. [3]
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