Canarsee
Sign in to saveThe Canarsee were a band of Munsee-speaking Lenape who inhabited the westernmost end of Long Island and Staten Island at the time the Dutch colonized New Amsterdam in the 1620s and 1630s.
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The Canarsee were a band of Munsee-speaking Lenape who inhabited the westernmost end of Long Island and Staten Island at the time the Dutch colonized New Amsterdam in the 1620s and 1630s.
They are credited with selling the island of Manhattan to the Dutch, even though they only occupied its lower reaches, with the balance the seasonal hunting grounds of the Wecquaesgeek of the Wappinger people to the north.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Canarsee” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.