the namesake of several areas in New York, including: Town of Wappinger Village of Wappingers Falls Wappinger Creek Wappinger Trail, Briarcliff Manor, New York Broadway in New York City also follows their ancient trail. [ 55 ] Notable Wappinger [

and powerful member of the Iroquois Nation in central and western New York, defeated the Wappinger by 1645. [ 33 ] Together, the allies killed more than 1500 Wappinger during the two years of the war, a devastating toll for the Wappinger…

295. ISBN 9780403098774 . ^ "Definition of WAPPINGER" . ^ a b Sultzman, Lee (1997). "Wappinger History" . Retrieved 14 January 2012 . ^ "The $24 Swindle", Nathaniel Benchley, American Heritage , 1959, Vol. 11, Issue 1 ^ Boesch, Eugene, J., Native

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In other projects Wikidata item Appearance move to sidebar hide From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Native American tribe This article is about the Native American tribe. For other uses, see Wappinger (disambiguation) . Ethnic group Wappinger

other Algonquin tribes to the east. Like the Lenape, the Wappinger were highly decentralized as a people. They formed approximately 18 loosely associated bands that had established geographic territories. [ 8 ] History [ edit ] The Wappinger had

Lenape, the Wappinger were highly decentralized as a people. They formed numerous loosely associated bands that had established geographic territories. [ 8 ] The Wequaesgeek , a Wappinger people living along the lower Hudson River near today's New

edit ] Hudson Valley portal The Wappinger are the namesake of several areas in New York, including: Town of Wappinger Village of Wappingers Falls Wappinger Creek Wappinger Trail, Briarcliff Manor, New York Broadway in New York City also follows their

Wappinger community in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, left to join the Oneida people in Oneida County in western New York. There they were joined by the remnants of the Munsee , forming the Stockbridge-Munsee tribe. From that time, the Wappinger ceased

tenant farmers , sparking colonist riots across the region. [ 36 ] [ 37 ] Daniel Nimham , last sachem of the Wappinger [ 38 ] In 1766 Daniel Nimham , last sachem of the Wappinger, was part of a delegation that traveled to London to petition the

Wappinger, headed by sachems , have been described as including: Wappinger (proper), lived on the east side of the Hudson River in present-day Dutchess County , New York Hammonasset , an eastern group at the mouth of the Connecticut River , in

suggested in 1872 that there had been a Wappinger Confederacy, as did anthropologist James Mooney in 1910, Ives Goddard contests their view. He writes that no evidence supports this idea. [ 15 ] Legacy [ edit ] Hudson Valley portal The Wappinger are

Wappinger spoke a dialect of the Munsee language , a Lenape tongue The Wappinger were most closely related to the Munsee , [ 25 ] a large subgroup of the Lenape people . All three were among the Eastern Algonquian -speaking subgroup of the Algonquian

29 ] 17th century [ edit ] The Wappinger first came into contact with Europeans in 1609, when Henry Hudson's expedition reached this territory on the Half Moon . [ 9 ] The total population of the Wappinger people at that time has been estimated…

Wappinger faced the Dutch again in the 1655 Peach War , a three-day engagement that left an estimated 100 settlers and 60 Wappinger dead, and strained relations further between the two groups. [ 34 ] After the war, the confederation broke apart…

"Short Historical and Journale Notes by David Pietersz, De Vries, 1665" . Annual Archæological Report . 1894– 95. Toronto: Warwick Bros. & Rutter: 75. ^ Pauls, Elizabeth Prine (2010). "Wappinger" . Encyclopædia Britannica . Encyclopædia Britannica

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Wapings, Wappinges, Wapinger and Wappenger. [ 14 ] Anthropologist Ives Goddard suggests the Munsee language -word wápinkw , used by the Lenape and meaning " opossum ", might be related to the name Wappinger. [ 21 ] [ 22 ] No evidence supports the

revision by Petrus Schenk Junior, Novi Belgii Novæque Angliæ ^ "1638- Colonists from Massachusetts Met the Quinnipiac Indians", The Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Connecticut ^ Wappinger History , Lee Sultzman ^ Their presence just inland

Wappinger territory (in center, "Wappinges"), from a copy of a 1685 reinterpretation of a 1656 map Total population Extinct as a tribe, [ 1 ] descendants joined the Stockbridge-Munsee [ 2 ] Regions with significant populations United States ( New

York ) Languages Eastern Algonquian languages , probably Munsee [ 1 ] Religion traditional tribal religion Related ethnic groups Other Algonquian peoples The Wappinger ( / ˈ w ɒ p ɪ n dʒ ər / WOP -in-jər ) [ 3 ] were an Eastern Algonquian

amid rising tensions. [ 32 ] Following the Pavonia massacre by colonists, during Kieft's War in 1643, the remaining Wappinger bands united against the Dutch, attacking settlements throughout New Netherland . The Dutch responded with the March 1644

blow to the tribe, which had also been decimated by European diseases. [ 41 ] 19th century [ edit ] Following the American Revolutionary War, [ 11 ] what was left of a combined Mohican and Wappinger community in Stockbridge, Massachusetts , left to

wapendragers , meaning "weapon-bearers", alluding to the warring relationship between the Dutch and the Wappinger. [ 7 ] [ 24 ] Such reference would correspond to a first appearance in 1643. This was thirty-four years after the Dutch aboard Hudson's

peoples . They spoke using very similar Lenape languages , with the Wappinger dialect most closely related to the Munsee language . Their nearest allies were the Mohican to the north, [ when? ] the Montaukett to the southeast on Long Island, and

many of the surviving Wappinger left their native lands for the protection of neighboring tribes, settling in particular in the "prayer town" [ 35 ] Stockbridge, Massachusetts in the western part of the colony, where Natives had settled who had

folk etymology of the name coming from a word meaning "easterner", [ citation needed ] as suggested by Edward Manning Ruttenber in 1906 [ 7 ] and John Reed Swanton in 1952. [ 23 ] Others suggest that Wappinger is anglicized from the Dutch word

converted to Christianity. 18th century [ edit ] In 1765, the remaining Wappinger in Dutchess County sued the Philipse family for control of the Philipse Patent land [ a ] but lost. In the aftermath the Philipses raised rents on the European-American

British Crown for a restoration of land rights and better treatment by the American colonists . Britain had controlled former "Dutch" lands in New York since 1664. Nimham was then living in Stockbridge, but he was originally from the Wappinger

devastating toll for the Wappinger. [ 8 ] The Wappinger faced the Dutch again in the 1655 Peach War , a three-day engagement that left an estimated 100 settlers and 60 Wappinger dead, and strained relations further between the two groups. [ 34 ]