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to the east. Like the 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

southeast on Long Island, and 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 [

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on the 1685 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

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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

subgroup of the Algonquian 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

edit ] The Wappinger had summer and winter camps. They cultivated maize, beans, and various species of squash. They also hunted game, fished, collected shellfish, and gathered fruits, flowers, seeds, roots, and nuts. [ 26 ] By 1609, the Wappingers'

earliest recorded European contact, their settlements included camps along the major rivers between the Hudson and Housatonic , with larger villages located at the river mouths. [ 27 ] Settlements near fresh water and arable land could remain in one

or desperately wounded." ^ Historical and Genealogical Record Dutchess and Putnam Counties, New York, Press of the A. V. Haight Co., Poughkeepsie, New York, 1912 ^ "Mt. Nimham: The Ridge of Patriots", Thomas F. Maxon, Rangerville Press, Kent, New

the marsh, swamp or wet meadow", "place of the bark kettle", and "birch bark country". ^ Cohen, Doris Darlington. "The Weckquaesgeek" (PDF) . Ardsley Historical Society . Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-10-23 . Retrieved 2016-08-19 . ^

colonists, wars with other Indian tribes, questionable land sales, waves of diseases brought by the Europeans, and absorption into other tribes, their last sachem and a group of their heavily dwindled people were residing at the "prayer town"

from the Dutch word 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

After the war, the confederation broke apart, 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

Philipses raised rents on the European-American 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

and northern Putnam counties, New York. Their tribal fire at one point was in Kent . Paugussett , along the Housatonic River , present-day eastern Fairfield and western New Haven counties of Connecticut Podunk , east of the Connecticut River in

Hills . [ 45 ] While Edward Manning Ruttenber 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 [

August, 1778" , Richard S. Walling, americanrevolution.org ^ a b Gale Courey Toensing, "Seneca Upset Over N.Y. Casino Agreement" , Indian Country Today , 26 January 2011 ^ Ruttenber, E.M. (1872). History of the Indian Tribes of Hudson's River .

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Nimham or his dress. File:Stockbridge_1778.jpg This is contemporary rendering of a Stockbridge warrior in 1778; Nimham died as one at the Battle of Kingsbridge ^ Vaughan, Alden (2006). Transatlantic Encounters: American Indians in Britain, 1500-1776

"Levine, David. "Discover the Hudson Valley's Tribal History", Hudson Valley Magazine , June 24, 2016" . Archived from the original on May 24, 2017 . Retrieved October 23, 2019 . ^ Their presence just inland of the Hudson Highlands is clearly labeled

Dunlap, David W. (1983-06-15). "Oldest Streets Are Protected as Landmark" . The New York Times . ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 2018-03-09 . Bibliography [ edit ] Goddard, Ives (1978). "Delaware" . In Trigger, Bruce G. (ed.). Handbook of North American

combined Mohican and 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,

] No evidence supports the 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

Language [ edit ] The 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

location for about 20 years, until the people moved to another place some miles away. Despite many references to their villages and other site types by early European explorers and settlers, few contact-period sites have been identified in

southeastern New York. [ 28 ] [ 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

quite, but durst not trust them" (Juet 1959:28). [ 29 ] Dutch navigator and colonist David Pieterz De Vries recorded another description of the Wappinger who resided around Fort Amsterdam: "The Indians about here are tolerably stout, have black hair