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After the early resignation of Bryan Polite, the leader of the Shinnecock Indian Nation Council of Trustees, due to exhaustion, [1] Goree ran in the 2024 Shinnecock leadership election. [5] She was elected as Polite's successor, winning with 133 votes over former predecessor Randy King . [ 5 ]
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.
Jeremy Dennis (born 1990) is a Shinnecock photographer who creates large-scale staged photographs that deal with conflicts and situations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous individuals. He is an enrolled member of the Shinnecock Indian Nation in Southampton, New York .
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 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 may refer to: Shinnecock Indian Nation, a federally-recognized American Indian tribe in the Town of Southampton, New York; Shinnecock Reservation, the tribe's reservation; Mohegan-Pequot language or Shinnecock language, an extinct Algonquian language formerly spoken by the Shinnecock
Courtney Leonard was born in 1980 in Long Island, New York. She is a member of the Shinnecock Nation, an indigenous community with historical connections to water, fishing, and whaling. [3] Leonard's early life and her identity was heavily influenced by the coastal way of life of the Shinnecock community.
Kelsey Leonard is an enrolled member of the Shinnecock Indian Nation and is originally from the Shinnecock Indian Reservation on Long Island, New York. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] In 2010, she was the first member of the Shinnecock Nation to graduate from Harvard University .