The Mohicans are an Eastern Algonquian Native American tribe that historically spoke an Algonquian language. As part of the Eastern Algonquian family of tribes,they are related to the neighboring Lenape,whose indigenous territory was to the south as far as the Atlantic coast. The Mohican lived in the upper tidal Hudson River Valley,including the confluence of the Mohawk River and into western New England centered on the upper Housatonic River watershed. After 1680,due to conflicts with the powerful Mohawk to the west during the Beaver Wars,many were driven southeastward across the present-day Massachusetts western border and the Taconic Mountains to Berkshire County around Stockbridge,Massachusetts.
The Lenape,also called the Lenni Lenape and Delaware people,are an Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands,who live in the United States and Canada.
The Ramapough Mountain Indians,known also as the Ramapough Lenape Nation or Ramapough Lunaape Munsee Delaware Nation or Ramapo Mountain people,are a New Jersey state-recognized tribe based in Mahwah. They have approximately 5,000 members living in and around the Ramapo Mountains of Bergen and Passaic counties in northern New Jersey and Rockland County in southern New York,about 25 miles (40 km) from New York City.
Ramapo is the name of several places and institutions in northern New Jersey and southeastern New York State. They were named after the Ramapough,a band of the Lenape Indians who migrated into the area from Connecticut by the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
The Ramapo River is a tributary of the Pompton River,approximately 30 mi (48 km) long,in southern New York and northern New Jersey in the United States.
The Siwanoy were an Indigenous American band of Munsee-speaking people,who lived in Long Island Sound along the coasts of what are now The Bronx,Westchester County,New York,and Fairfield County,Connecticut. They were one of the western bands of the Wappinger Confederacy. By 1640,their territory (Wykagyl) extended from Hell Gate to Norwalk,Connecticut,and as far inland as White Plains;it became hotly contested between Dutch and English colonial interests.
The Wappinger were an Eastern Algonquian Munsee-speaking Native American people from what is now southern New York and western Connecticut.
The Keeler Tavern is an 18th-century historical building at 152 Main Street in the center of Ridgefield,Connecticut,United States. The property served as summer home to architect Cass Gilbert,who purchased it in 1907 and designed additions to the building as well as a garden.
The Mohegan are an Algonquian Native American tribe historically based in present-day Connecticut. Today the majority of the people are associated with the Mohegan Indian Tribe,a federally recognized tribe living on a reservation in the eastern upper Thames River valley of south-central Connecticut. It is one of two federally recognized tribes in the state,the other being the Mashantucket Pequot,whose reservation is in Ledyard,Connecticut. There are also three state-recognized tribes:the Schaghticoke,Paugusett,and Eastern Pequot.
Daniel Nimham was the last sachem of the Wappinger people and an American Revolutionary War combat veteran. He was the most prominent Native American of his time in the lower Hudson Valley.
Pavonia was the first European settlement on the west bank of the North River that was part of the seventeenth-century province of New Netherland in what would become the present Hudson County,New Jersey.
Oratam was sagamore,or sachem,of the Hackensack Indians living in northeastern New Jersey during the period of early European colonization in the 17th century. Documentation shows that he lived an unusually long life and was quite influential among indigenous and immigrant populations.
Hackensack was the exonym given by the Dutch colonists to a band of the Lenape,or Lenni-Lenape,a Native American tribe. The name is a Dutch derivation of the Lenape word for what is now the region of northeastern New Jersey along the Hudson and Hackensack rivers. While the Lenape people occupied much of the mid-Atlantic area,Europeans referred to small groups of native people by the names associated with the places where they lived.
The Rumanchenank were a Lenape people who inhabited the region radiating from the Palisades in New York and New Jersey at the time of European colonialization in the 17th century. Settlers to the provincial colony of New Netherland called them the Haverstroo meaning oat straw,which became Haverstraw in English,and still used to describe part of their territory.
The Esopus was a tribe of Lenape (Delaware) Native Americans who were native to the Catskill Mountains of what is now the Hudson Valley. Their lands included modern-day Ulster and Sullivan counties.
The Pompton or Pamapon people were a sub-tribe of Algonquian-speaking Native Americans,who once lived northern New Jersey. The Pompton historically lived along Pompton and Pequannock Rivers,near what is now Paterson,New Jersey,but they were forced out of New Jersey after their lands had been taken without compensation by European colonists.
Taphow was a Native American Munsee sachem in Connecticut,was the son of Ponus and the uncle to Katonah. Taphow,known as the "Sakimore and Commander in Chief of all those Indians inhabiting in northern New Jersey,signed many land deeds "in the lands of Taphow and his relations" including the Ramapo Tract in 1700,the Kakiat Patent in 1701 and witnessed the sale of the Wawayanda Patent. Taphow's wife,Awowas (Wawowus),and son Quatowquechuck also signed on some land deeds. Taphow was accused of murder in Connecticut but was acquitted for lack of evidence.
The Pound Ridge massacre was a battle of Kieft's War that took place in March 1644 between the forces of New Netherland and members of the Wappinger Confederacy at a village of its members in the present-day town of Pound Ridge,New York. A mixed force of 130 New Netherland soldiers led by Captain John Underhill launched a night attack on the village and destroyed it with fire. 500 to 700 members of the Wappinger Confederacy were killed while the New Netherland force lost one man killed and fifteen wounded. More casualties were suffered in this attack than in any other single incident in the war. Shortly after the battle several local Wappinger Confederacy sachems sued for peace.
The Red Road is an American drama television series that aired on SundanceTV from February 27,2014 to May 7,2015. This was SundanceTV's second fully owned scripted original series;the first was Rectify. The Red Road was canceled after its second season,as confirmed by Jason Momoa,who played Phillip Kopus in the series. The show's plot is based on the plight of the Ramapough Lenape Nation at the Ringwood Mines landfill site in New Jersey,where toxic wastes from the nearby Mahwah Ford plant were dumped.
John Copp was a member of the House of Representatives of the Colony of Connecticut from Norwalk in the sessions of May 1706,May 1716,October 1718,and May 1719. He served from 1708 to 1740 as the town clerk of Norwalk. He was one of the purchasers of the land for the present town of Ridgefield,Connecticut from the Ramapoo Indians,as well as the town's clerk and surveyor. He also laid out the lots and roads of the present town of Bedford,New York.
