The Canarsee (also Canarse and Canarsie) were a band of Munsee-speaking Lenape who inhabited the westernmost end of Long Island at the time the Dutch colonized...

Metoac is an erroneous term used by some to group together the Munsee-speaking Lenape (west), Quiripi-speaking Unquachog (center) and Pequot-speaking Montaukett...

institutions of note, including Brooklyn College. The area was home to the Canarsee people before contact with Europeans; many of the tribe's paths would become...

it was a seasonal ground of the Canarsee, a Metoac people who lived across the East River in today's Brooklyn. Canarsee, the Native American band that...

1636, Gowanus Bay – named after Gauwane (Gouwane, lit. "the sleeper"), a Canarsee Indian – was the site of the first settlement by Dutch farmers in what...

where they lived, such as "Raritan" in Staten Island and New Jersey, "Canarsee" in Brooklyn, and "Hackensack" in New Jersey across the Hudson River from...

Manhattan island was used as a hunting ground by two tribes, the Canarse (Canarsee, or Canarsie) of today's Brooklyn at its southern one-quarter and the Weckquaesgeek...

colonial governors of New Jersey List of colonial governors of New York Canarsee Also Pieter Minuit, Pierre Minuit, or Peter Minnewit Historisch Genootschap...

associated with place names as the Wecquaesgeek, Hackensacks, Raritans, Canarsee, and Tappans. These groups had the most frequent contact with the New Netherlanders...

unsuccessfully tried to contest Pennekeck. Burial Ridge Hackensack Wappinger Canarsee Navesink Raritan Bayshore Ives Goddard, "Delaware," p. 213. "The Origin...

Street is also called South Slope. The area was initially occupied by the Canarsee band of Munsee-speaking Lenape until the first European settlement occurred...

American Revolutionary War. The Canarsee Indians were the first inhabitants of what is now western Brooklyn. The Canarsee were members of the Algonquian...

"Gowanes Creek" after Gouwane, sachem of the local Lenape tribe called the Canarsee, who lived and farmed along the shores of the creek. Also source of the...

Munsee-speaking subgroups, formerly Long Island and southeastern New York Canarsie (Canarsee), formerly Long Island New York Esopus, formerly New York, later Ontario...

originally settled by the Canarsee Indians, one of several indigenous Lenape peoples who farmed and hunted on the land. The Canarsee Indians had several routes...

was well known among the Dutch in New Amsterdam. He was Sachem of the Canarsee band of Munsee in the 1630s and 1640s, and cultivated a relationship with...

Sapohanikan was a Lenape settlement of the Canarsee now located in close proximity to where Gansevoort Street meets Washington Street near the Hudson River...

Purchased Nut Island (Noten Eylant), later called Governor's Island from Canarsee tribe for two axeheads, a string of beads and iron nails Lost the colony's...

Police Department. Retrieved October 3, 2016. Jaffe, Herman J. (1979). The Canarsee Indians: The Original Inhabitants. Brooklyn: The Fourth Largest City In...

appointment purchased Nut Island (Noten Eylant)—now Governor's Island—from Canarsee tribe for two axeheads, a string of beads, and iron nails Lost the colony's...

not last long; in 1655, his farm was burnt down by Natives, likely the Canarsee, so he moved further inland to Flushing." Kadinsky, Sergey (2016). Hidden...

purchased Nut Island (Noten Eylant), later called Governor's Island from Canarsee tribe for two axeheads, a string of beads and iron nails Lost the colony's...

the Kichtawank; Sinsink; Rechgawawank; Nayack; Marechkawieck, with the Canarsee and Rockaway on western Long Island; and Massapequa and Matinecock on central...

influential in bringing the Hackensack Indians sachem Oratam and also the Canarsee sachem Penhawitz to negotiate a truce, which did not hold in the face of...

Island (referred to erroneously as "Mantinecocks"). They consisted of the "Canarsee" and "Rockaway" Lenape groups, which inhabited coastal wetlands across...

May 24, 1626, from unnamed native people, who are believed to have been Canarsee Indians of the Manhattoe, in exchange for traded goods worth 60 guilders...

found in contemporary documents to "Canarsie Indians": 19  (alternatively "Canarsee"). Their name has also been transcribed as "Connarie See" (a name for Jamaica...

originally settled by the Jameco Native Americans, and later used by the Canarsee and Rockaway tribes as fishing grounds.: Vol 1, p. 7.4  In the 1650s Dutch...

originally part of the Leni Lenape Nation, possibly inhabited by members of the Canarsee band. By 1653, though, English and Dutch farmers moved into the area and...

near Green-Wood Cemetery's southern border, was originally settled by the Canarsee Indians, one of several indigenous Lenape peoples who farmed and hunted...