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As was common practice early in the days of white European colonisation of North America, a people came to be associated with a place, with its name displacing theirs among the colonies and those associated with them, such as explorers, mapmakers, trading company superiors who sponsored many of the
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early settlements, and officials in the colonizers' mother country in Europe. This was the case of the "Canarsee" people, whose name, to the extent they identified with one, is lost in history.
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the entirety of the island for $ 24 in 1639. A confusion of possession on the part of the Canarsees who failed to tell the Dutch that the balance of island was the hunting ground of the
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to the Dutch, even though they only occupied its lower reaches, with the balance the seasonal hunting grounds of the
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The Canarsee were among the peoples who were conflated with other Long Island bands into a group called the
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Red Hook Lane, a Canarsee path thru the marshland was in colonial times the main trail from
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Tribal Names of the Americas: Spelling Variants and Alternative Forms, Cross-Referenced
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A History of Long Island From Its First Settlement By Europeans to the Year 1845
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Encyclopedia of New Jersey Indians: Encyclopedia of Native Peoples
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It is the "Canarse" , who only utilized the very southern end of
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The Columbia Guide to American Indians of the Northeast,
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Index

Canarse

Brooklyn
Munsee
Lenape
Long Island
Dutch
New Amsterdam
Manhattan
Wecquaesgeek
Wappinger
Metoac
Manhattan
Manhattoes
Peter Minuit
Wecquaesgeek
Wappinger
Westchester County
Brooklyn Heights
Red Hook
Red Hook Lane Arresick
ISBN
978-1-55787-148-0
ISBN
978-0-231-11452-3
Encyclopedia of New Jersey Indians: Encyclopedia of Native Peoples, Donald Ricky, 1998, p. 176



"The $ 24 Swindle"

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