Wappinger
Sign in to saveThe Wappinger ( ) were an Eastern Algonquian Munsee-speaking Native American people from what is now southern New York and western Connecticut.
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- Wappinger
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- Excerpt from Map-Novi Belgii Novæque Angliæ (Amsterdam, 1685).jpg
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- Wappinger territory (in center, "Wappinges"), from a copy of a 1685 reinterpretation of a 1656 map
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- Extinct as a tribe,descendants joined the Stockbridge-Munsee
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- United States (New York)
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- Eastern Algonquian languages, probably Munsee
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- traditional tribal religion
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- Other Algonquian peoples
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12 sectionsContents
- Name
- Language
- History
- 17th century
- 18th century
- 19th century
- Bands
- Legacy
- Notable Wappinger
- Notes
- References
- Bibliography
The Wappinger ( ) were an Eastern Algonquian Munsee-speaking Native American people from what is now southern New York and western Connecticut.
At the time of first contact in the 17th century they were primarily based in what is now Dutchess County, New York, but their territory included the east bank of the Hudson in what became both Putnam and Westchester counties south to the western Bronx and northern Manhattan Island. To the east they reached to the Connecticut River Valley, and to the north the Roeliff Jansen Kill in southernmost Columbia County, New York, marked the end of their territory.