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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 .
Cayuga Nation of New York (Seneca County) Oil Springs (Cattaraugus County, Allegany County) Oneida Indian Nation (Madison County) Onondaga (Onondaga County) Poospatuck (Suffolk County) St. Regis Mohawk (Franklin County) Shinnecock (Suffolk County) Tonawanda (Genesee County, Erie County, Niagara County) Tuscarora (Niagara County
In 2023, federal authorities seized over 60,000 pounds of cannabis plants from Dineh Benally, the former president of the San Juan River Farm Board, who along with business partners had been growing the crops on 400 acres of farmland in the northeast corner of the Navajo Nation reservation.
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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]
It is one of two Native American reservations in Suffolk County, the other being the Shinnecock Reservation. The population was 436 at the 2020 census. The Unkechaugi are descendants of the Quiripi-speaking Native Americans, who occupied much of southern New England and central Long Island at the time of European encounter in the colonial era.
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