The Canarsee (also Canarse and Canarsie) were a band of Munsee-speaking Lenape who inhabited the westernmost end of Long Island at the time the Dutch colonized...

Metoac is an erroneous term used by some to group together the Munsee-speaking Lenape (west), Quiripi-speaking Unquachog (center) and Pequot-speaking Montaukett...

it was a seasonal ground of the Canarsee, a Metoac people who lived across the East River in today's Brooklyn. Canarsee, the Native American band that...

institutions of note, including Brooklyn College. The area was home to the Canarsee people before contact with Europeans; many of the tribe's paths would become...

1636, Gowanus Bay – named after Gauwane (Gouwane, lit. "the sleeper"), a Canarsee Indian – was the site of the first settlement by Dutch farmers in what...

where they lived, such as "Raritan" in Staten Island and New Jersey, "Canarsee" in Brooklyn, and "Hackensack" in New Jersey across the Hudson River from...

colonial governors of New Jersey List of colonial governors of New York Canarsee Also Pieter Minuit, Pierre Minuit, or Peter Minnewit Historisch Genootschap...

Manhattan island was used as a hunting ground by two tribes, the Canarse (Canarsee, or Canarsie) of today's Brooklyn at its southern one-quarter and the Weckquaesgeek...

associated with place names as the Wecquaesgeek, Hackensacks, Raritans, Canarsee, and Tappans. These groups had the most frequent contact with the New Netherlanders...

was well known among the Dutch in New Amsterdam. He was Sachem of the Canarsee band of Munsee in the 1630s and 1640s, and cultivated a relationship with...