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325:Native American tribes in New York (state)
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340:Algonquian ethnonyms
275:Nathaniel Scudder,
219:Bragdon, Kathleen.
259:"The $ 24 Swindle"
121:Westchester County
119:band of southwest
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147:Explanatory notes
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