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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 .
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She later announced that one of her goals is to settle the tribe's land dispute with Shinnecock Hills Golf Club. [1] Although women had already served as trustees, with three of them in the council at the time, [1] she became the first woman elected to the position since the state government's 1792 establishment of the Shinnecock trusteeship. [5]
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The state and tribe have disagreed on certain rights on the reservation. On July 14, 2003, Rhode Island state police raided a tribe-run smoke shop on the Charlestown reservation, the culmination of a dispute over the tribe's failure to pay state taxes on its sale of cigarettes. [36] In 2005, the U.S.
Dennis served as the Trustee of the Shinnecock Indian Nation of Long Island, New York, for nineteen nonconsecutive years between 1952 and 1985, becoming one of the Shinnecock's longest serving elected leaders in history. [1] [2] The trustee is the Shinnecock's highest officeholder. [3]