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Nathan Jeffrey Cuffee
Mary Rebecca Bunn ( Aunt Becky )
William Wallace Tooker
Sachem Aquash of the Montaukett
Poggatacut, Sachem of the Manhassets of Shelter Island
Sunksqua Weany / Pametsechs
Ninigret, Eastern Niantic Sachem
Worison – Unkechaug Whaler
Stephen Talkhouse
Mandush, 17th Century Sachem of Shinnecock
Sylvester Pharoah
Lois “Princess Nowedonah” Hunter
Betty Lewis Cromwell (Shinnecock)
Jeremiah Pharoah – Montaukett Whaler
Wobetom
Jeorgkee – Indian Whaler
Rev. Paul Cuffee
Paucamp
Sachem Warawakmy of the Setauket
Mocomanto – Shinnecock Sachem 1640
Peter John Cuffee
Wuchikittawbut – Wife of Wyandanch
Chief Mahue / Mayhew of Unkechaug
Momoweta
Samson Occom
Wyandanch
Protected: M. Raymond Harrington
Cockenoe (de Long Island)

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Happy Indigenous Peoples Day!!! Please consider ma

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day!!! Please consider making a gift of any amount to support #LandBack for Shinnecock. Link in bio to the Peconic Land Trust Shinnecock Land Acquisition and Stewardship Fund. Your gift goes to a 501c3 and is tax deductible!! #shinnecock
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Long Island is Indigenous land and always has been

Long Island is Indigenous land and always has been. Sewanhaky, or the Island of Black Shells (Long Island), is the present homeland of diverse and connected communities of Indigenous peoples who continue to honor, practice, and assert kinship to this place and each other. We honor and respect ancestors past and present as we commit to building a more equitable space for all. In conjunction with the virtual exhibition “Indigenous History & Good Little Water Place” (link in bio) sponsored by a @humanitiesny Action Grant with support from @nehgov, Preservation Long Island was able to purchase a series of photographs by Shinnecock fine art photographer and exhibition co-curator @jeremynative. Entitled “Sacredness of Hills,” the series is based upon recurring desecrations of Indigenous burial grounds surrounding the Shinnecock tribal community in Southampton, NY. On Monday, August 13th, 2018, skeleton remains were found during residential development on Hawthorne 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. Through Preservation Long Island’s advocacy work, we continue to support the preservation of unmarked burials and Indigenous sacred sites across Long Island. We encourage you to follow and support the important work of @gravesprotection_warriors, a group of members of the Shinnecock Nation working together to protect and preserve known and unknown burial sites on Long Island. To learn more about sacred, culturally significant, and historical Indigenous landscapes on Long Island, follow and support Jeremy Dennis’s @onthissite project. #indigenouspeoplesday
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On this day in history, October 1st, 2010, the Shi

On this day in history, October 1st, 2010, the Shinnecock Nation received Federal Recognition after 32-years of petitioning, which formalized a government-to-government relationship between the Shinnecock Nation and the United States. With the ruling, the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Final Determination for Federal Acknowledgment of the Nation (the “FD”) rendered the Shinnecock Nation the 565th federally recognized Indian nation in the United States. Image: In this June 15, 2005 file photo, Shinnecock Indian Nation trustee James Eleazer, Jr., third from right, addresses the media as tribal Chairman Randy King, center and Charles Smith, left, listen outside court in Central Islip, N.Y., where King filed papers claiming tribal ownership of 3,600 acres of land in Southampton, N.Y. Members of the small Indian tribe on New York’s Long Island were celebrating with prayers and song Tuesday June 15, 2010 after receiving notification from the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs that it has been formally recognized as a tribe. (AP Photo/Ed Betz, File)( / AP) .
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Happening today on Shelter Island: AFRO-INDIGENOUS

Happening today on Shelter Island: AFRO-INDIGENOUS BURIAL GROUND PARTNERSHIP AT SYLVESTER MANOR
Sylvester Manor, the Shinnecock Tribal Nation Graves Protection Warrior Society, Honor Our Indigenous Ancestors, Inc., Unkechaug Nation and representative descendants of tribal people of Long Island are proud to announce the Afro-Indigenous Burial Ground Partnership at Sylvester Manor. This fall’s inaugural project will focus on the archaeological study of Sylvester Manor’s Afro-Indigenous Burial Ground under the direction of Dr. Stephen Mrozowski of the University of Massachusetts Boston. Opening Ceremony & Blessing
Friday, September 24 at 4:00 pm Public Site Viewing
Saturday, September 25
11:00 am - 4:00 pm
The public is invited to visit the Afro-Indigenous Burial Ground Project kickoff this weekend while our archaeology and tribal representative partners begin mapping, surveying and studying the site. Ask questions, watch the process and reflect on the significance of this sacred site. Sylvester Manor's archivist/curator, Donnamarie Barnes, will be available to discuss the project and the history of the Burial Ground. Parking is available at the public restrooms. Follow the wood chip pathway to the Burial Ground. COVID protocols are in place, including social distancing. Masks are recommended for anyone who is unvaccinated. https://mailchi.mp/sylvestermanor/burial-ground-partnership?e=8a58217f50 #sylvestermanor #sylvestermanorfarm #sylvestermanorfarmstand #sylvestermanoreductionalfarm #sylvestermanoreducationalfarm #shelterisland #shelterislandny #shelterislandferry #shelterislandmarina #shelterislandheights #shelterislandreporter #suffolkcounty #suffolkcountyny #suffolkcounty #suffolkcountyny #suffolkcountyfarm #shinnecock #shinnecockhills #shinnecocknation #shinnecockindiannation

Sonquoqua was an Indian who lived at this place, a

Sonquoqua was an Indian who lived at this place, and from his English name of Tom, the creek perhaps derived its name, although the common supposition is that it was derived from Thomas Benedict, one of the early inhabitants of Hashamomuk. Sonquoqua was one of the chief men of the Manhansett tribe; his name appears on the deed to Sylvester and Company for Shelter Island in 1652, as '' Sonquoequahesick. " The affix -esick, "of the brook," probably refers to his residence at Tom's Creek. •
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Indian Fields is a twelve hundred acre settlement

Indian Fields is a twelve hundred acre settlement site for the Montaukett Indians with evidence of occupation dating from the pre-contact Paleo-Indian period until May 1885. The area has two small ponds and bluffs that overlook the Atlantic. This terrain of rolling grassland and brush is now a Suffolk County Park. Maria Pharoah, one of the remaining Montauketts living in Indian Fields during the 19th century, kept a diary, the only such document about the lifestyle of the Natives at the time, describes their self-sufficient, happy homesteading lifestyle — gathering, hunting, fishing, guiding sportsmen and selling crafts. Illustration from Gaynell Stone, History and Archaeology of the Montauk •
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South Harbor was a 17th-century Corchaug Indian se

South Harbor was a 17th-century Corchaug Indian settlement of about 125 acres that was set aside by the town of Southold. But, just five years later, they were pushed again to a land known as Indian Neck across the channel. During the early contact period of 1630 to 1650, local native people were moving all the time under the threat of the English colonists. Before being forcefully removed to South Harbor, this group of Corchaug people lived on Hogs Neck and were told to fence it in. Before Hogs neck, they were spread throughout Yennicot, now known as the town of Southold today. The reason behind the forced removal was that the colonists claimed the Corchaug people were asked to continuously till the land for farms but failed to do so - despite the fact that Indigenous people had taught the colonists how to plant, fertilize crops, fish, and whale hunt generations before. Today the land is largely open fields and private farmland. •
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