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Reposted from @netooeusqua Big win for my tribe and sister tribes in Long Island this week. Thank you to my fellow Graves Protection Warrior Society Warriors for holding down the frontlines. For generations our elders have been instilling in us the importance of protecting our burial sites and it’s beautiful to witness in my lifetime all of our efforts to carry that mission out. A BIG THANKS to each and every follower and ally who has been supporting since we stood our on the frontlines to stop the development and desecration. Recently the Southampton Town Board voted unanimously to authorize an expenditure of $5.3 million from the Community Preservation Fund to purchase a conservation easement for 4.5 acres of Sugar Loaf Hill, the most sacred ancestral Shinnecock burial area in the Shinnecock Hills. Peconic Land Trust closed on the parcel next week. After an existing mansion located on the parcel is dismantled and restoration work is done, the site will be returned to Shinnecock. The work ALL OF US are doing to ensure are land is preserved for the next generations is profound. We still have much work to do! And we still need your support. If you haven’t yet follow @warriorsofthesunrise to keep up to date on the latest regarding our efforts to protect our sacred sites. #LandBack #PreserveShinnecockHills #Hamptons #ShinnecockStrong #AlwaysSovereign #Southampton
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In 1657, houses were burned in Southampton village by two Shinnecock men and a black woman who served in one of the houses belonging to Eleanor Howell, widow of Edward Howell a founder of the town. The motive may have been in retaliation for the mistreatment of servants in the Howell home, or in response to roaming horses from Southampton destroying Shinnecock corn fields Colonial authorities in Hartford sent a troop of nineteen men under the command of John Mason, who commanded the massacre of the Pequot at Mystic during the Pequot War. When Mason levied a fine of £700 on the Shinnecock community, Wyandanch went to Hartford and sent a representative to Boston to convince the authorities to reduce the £700 fine to £500. While the damage was minimal, large fines were often used as a form of control and land acquisition if indigenous communities couldn't pay the fine.
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At the mouth of Carman’s River, Squassux Landing is named after a Native American potter who worked along the west side of the river at the end of Beaver Dam road. Before being used as a place to sail to the barrier beach, Native Americans set out to hunt whales from Squassux. Later, the site was used as a landing place for whaling crews stationed on Fire Island. Second image: Unkechaug canoers at Squassux, date unknown
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In 2003, a group burial was discovering during residential development and a house barn construction, dating back to between 1400 to 1640 AD. Shinnecock tribal members argued against further disruption of the soil, seeing the proposed barn as a cemetery site. Despite resistance, the private owners continued development while the remains were reburied in an undisclosed location on Shelter Island.
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Known as the last building with direct connection to Freetown, a small village inhabited by freed African slaves and Montaukett Indians, St Matthew’s Chapel,was attended by African, Indian, and whites local residents on Three Mile Harbor Road. In 1976, the building was purchased by Richard C. Sage and moved to the Maidstone Marina boatyard to be used as a chapel for mariners. The building remains today; however, the interior has been changed into a fitness center to accommodate guests.
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Hoggenoch - On October 3, 1665, the Deed to Hog's Neck (North Haven) was signed. It read; "The Shelter Island Indians have this day confirmed the purchase of Hog Neck to Southampton men, forever serving liberty of hunting and fishing and fowling upon same, and have received six Indian coats upon the confirmation thereof. The full satisfaction of all their claims to Southampton men." According to William Wallace Tooker, the traditional Algonquian name of Hog's Neck was "Hoggenoch" which was corrupted to "Hog's Neck." Another interpretation is that the early 'copyists' thought that "Hog's Neck" was too crude and created a psudo-Indian name. The name Northhaven became more popular in the early 20th century. Image: Hog's Neck (Northhaven) Town Hall.
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The Stephen Talkhouse Pharoah house was used by Pharoah later in his life. The house featured two "Indian barns" as food storage, and a footpath toward Bridgehampton on it's edge. The foundation remains today, but the house may have been a wood cabin during its use. At the foundation, a sign partially reads, "A direct descendant of the Montaukett Chief Wyandanch, Stephen was born in Springs in 1819 ( at Molly’s Hill ). As a child, his family sold him into indentured servitude for the sum of forty dollars, one dollar for each pound he weighed. At the age of thirteen he ran away to Sag Harbor where he secured a berth on a whaling ship bound for South Pacific."
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On Monday, August 13th, 2018, skeleton remains were found during residential development on Hawthrone Road in the Shinnecock Hills. The developers and homeowners contacted the Southampton Town and Suffolk County police department, who quickly disturbed the ground further for evidence of recent criminal activity. Along with human remains, a glass bottle from the 17th-century contact period was found, indicating a likelihood of the remains being of Native American descent with burial offerings. The Shinnecock Indian Nation arrived on the site soon after the detectives with the goal of overlooking the development. If the remains are from Native descent, the tribe encourages the town to use it's Community Preservation Fund to preserve the lot and respect the burial.
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The Stony Brook Site is a prehistoric Indian Village located in the town of Stony Brook, New York, often described as an area on the North Store of "Aunt Amy's Creek." Found in 1956 and later excavated by William A. Ritchie in 1959, Ritchie describes the component as "Indians [who] are believed to be of the pre-ceramic archaic group who wandered from one semi-permanent camp to the next from c. 3000 B.C to 1000 B.C." In 1981, Edward Johannemann, director of the Long Island Archaeological Project at the State University at Stony Brook, described the site as a 3,000 year old weapons factory. [1. Tracing L.I. Life 3,000 Years Ago. NY Times Judi Culbertson 1981] The written report of this site describes the contemporary landscape as an "Area possibly destroyed by housing development."
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