Wappinger
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The Wappinger were an Eastern Algonquian Munsee-speaking Native American people from what is now southern New York and western Connecticut.
Daniel Nimham, last sachem of the Wappinger
Mohicans
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The Mohicans or Mahicans are an Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands who spoke an Eastern Algonquian language. Historically, they were based in Upstate New York. Today, they are enrolled in
Wappinger
…and to the north the Roeliff Jansen Kill in southernmost Columbia County, New York, marked the end of their territory. Their nearest allies were the Mohican to the north, the Montaukett to the southeast on Long Island, and the other Algonquin tribes to the east. Like the Lenape, the Wappinger were highly…
Land deed, 31 May 1664, Willem Hoffmeyer purchase of 3 islands in the Hudson River near Troy from three native Mohicans – Albany Institute of History and Art
The Mohican chief Etow Oh Koam, referred to as one of the Four Mohawk Kings in a state visit to Queen Anne in 1710. By John Simon, c. 1750.
Von Ewald sketch of a Stockbridge Militia warrior who fought on the Patriot side in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War