Wappinger

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The Wappinger were an Eastern Algonquian-speaking Native American people who historically inhabited parts of what are now southeastern New York and southwestern Connecticut.

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Label Occurrences
Wappinger canonical 4

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Eastern Algonquian people
Native American people
affectedBy European colonization of North America
epidemic diseases
colonialContactWith Dutch colonists
English colonists
conflict Kieft's War
surface form: Dutch–Native American conflicts in New Netherland

Kieft's War
Kieft's War
surface form: Wappinger War
continent North America
culturalRegion Northeast Woodlands
surface form: Northeastern Woodlands
economy fur trade participation
ethnicGroupOf United States of America
surface form: United States
historicalRegion Hudson Valley
surface form: Hudson River Valley

Long Island Sound
surface form: Long Island Sound region

Hudson Valley
surface form: Lower Hudson River Valley

southeastern New York
southwestern Connecticut
languageFamily Algonquian languages
Eastern Algonquian languages
partOf Eastern Woodlands
surface form: Eastern Woodlands cultural area
populationTrend decline after European contact
presentDayLocationOfDescendants Canada
Connecticut
New Jersey, United States
surface form: New Jersey

New York
relatedEthnicGroup Lenape
Mahican
Mohegan
Montaukett
Pequot people
surface form: Pequot

Mohegan
surface form: Quinnipiac
religion traditional Algonquian spirituality
subgroupOf Algonquian peoples
territoryIncluded Hudson River waterfront
surface form: Hudson River east bank

coastal areas along Long Island Sound
timePeriod 17th century
18th century
pre-Columbian era
traditionalDwellings longhouses
wigwams
traditionalLanguage Munsee language
surface form: Wappinger language

an Eastern Algonquian language
traditionalSubsistence fishing
gathering wild plants
hunting
maize agriculture

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Mahican relatedEthnicGroup Wappinger
East Fishkill adjacentTo Wappinger
Kieft's War belligerent Wappinger