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24 April 2016
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Welikia Mannahatta Lenape (Unami and Munsee dialects) Mohegans, Mahicans, Montauks, Shinnecooks,
Raritans, Matinacooks, Canarsees, Wappingers, Ramapoughs
To the North, Haudenosaunee
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Pequot War Strain on Algonkian polities, post-Pequot War Refugees on Long Island, Staten Island, Lower Hudson
Valley Tensions with the Mohawk (past Fort Orange) Willem Kieft, governor April 1638-1647 Tribute payments A controversy over pigs Murder of Claes Swits, 1641
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The Pavonia Massacre, 1641 (150 Lenni Lenape) “Infants were torn from their mother's breasts, and
hacked to pieces in the presence of their parents, and pieces thrown into the fire and in the water, and other sucklings, being bound to small boards, were cut, stuck, and pierced, and miserably massacred in a manner to move a heart of stone. Some were thrown into the river, and when the fathers and mothers endeavored to save them, the soldiers would not let them come on land but made both parents and children drown...”
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Full scale warfare by 1643 Algonkian unity (Lenapes, Hudson River, Staten
Island, Long Island) –as many as 1500 warriors in the field
Winter massacres (1643-1644) Captain John Underhill and the Massacre at Pound
Ridge, March 1644 Truce, 1645
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By 1700, WSP was not “native space” at all Farmland and “country estates”
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1828—Minetta Creek gone, WSP has present shape and boundaries
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A Native space?
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D’Arcy McNickle (1904-1977) Cree/Flathead Writer/poet/playwright/activist/anthropologist From 1933-1936, lived on West Fourth Street The Surrounded (1936)
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Mabel Dodge Luhan (1879-1962) Salon at 28 Fifth Avenue Obsession with preserving Native cultures Friends with George Gustav Heye First use of peyote in NYC? 1912? Moved to Taos, where she married Tony Luhan
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Hanay Geiogamah (1945--) Kiowa/Lenape from Anadarko, OK Moved to Greenwich Village, 1971 Founded the Native American Theater Ensemble, 1971 1972 Body Indian 1973 Foghorn 1975 49 All performed at La MaMa on East Fourth
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Today? NYU’s Native and American Indian student group Global Indigenous Studies
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Sanderson and Boyer, Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City (2013)
Romney, Susanah Shaw, New Netherland Connections(2014)
Harris, Around Washington Square: An Illustrated History of Greenwich Village (2003)
https://welikia.org/