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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.
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 .
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 .
[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]
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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]
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
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 ...