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Manhattan was historically part of the Lenapehoking territory inhabited by the Munsee Lenape [9] and Wappinger tribes. [10] There were several Lenape settlements in the area of Manhattan including Sapohanikan, Nechtanc, and Konaande Kongh that were interconnected by a series of trails.
The Wecquaesgeek (also Manhattoe and Manhattan) were a Munsee-speaking band of Wappinger people who once lived along the east bank of the Hudson River in the southwest of today's Westchester County, New York, [1] and down into the Bronx.
Sapohanikan was a Lenape settlement of the Canarsee now located in close proximity to where Gansevoort Street meets Washington Street near the Hudson River in Manhattan. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The people of the settlement were violently displaced under Dutch Governor Wouter van Twiller in the 1630s, who operated a tobacco plantation for the Dutch West ...
Manhattoe, also Manhattan, was a name erroneously given to a Native American people of the lower Hudson River, the Weckquaesgeek, [a] a Wappinger band which occupied the southwestern part of today's Westchester County. [12] [b] In the early days of Dutch settlement they utilized the upper three-quarters of Manhattan Island [14] [15] as a ...
This is a list of Indian reservations in the U.S. state of New York.. Allegany (Cattaraugus County); Cattaraugus (Erie County, Cattaraugus County, Chautauqua County); Cayuga Nation of New York (Seneca County)
Ashokan Reservoir; Canandaigua Lake; Claverack Creek; Conesus Lake; Cossayuna Lake; Hoosic River; Keuka Lake; Mongaup River; Neversink River; Nissequogue River
Indians in the New York City metropolitan area constitute one of the largest and fastest-growing ethnicities in the New York City metropolitan area of the United States. The New York City region is home to the largest and most prominent Indian American population among metropolitan areas by a significant margin, enumerating 711,174 uniracial individuals based on the 2013–2017 U.S. Census ...
The "Canarsee" are shown settled where Brooklyn is today. [1] [2]The Canarsee (also Canarse and Canarsie) were a band of Munsee-speaking Lenape who inhabited the westernmost end of Long Island [3] at the time the Dutch colonized New Amsterdam in the 1620s and 1630s.