Canarsee
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canarsee-186-16322840
title:
Canarsee
text:
The Canarsee were a band of Munsee-speaking Lenape who inhabited the westernmost end of Long Island at the time the Dutch colonized New Amsterdam in the 1620s and 1630s. They are credited with selling the island of Manhattan to the Dutch, even though they only occupied its lower reaches, with the balance the seasonal hunting grounds of the Wecquaesgeek of the Wappinger people to the north. The Canarsee were among the peoples who were conflated with other Long Island bands into a group called the
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original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canarsee
date created:
2019-03-05T19:55:50Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T07:22:00Z
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13
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