"Native Land Digital" is an indigenous-led, Canadian-based non-profit group seeking to raise awareness of where original Native American tribes owned property. They admit that this is a work in progress, not perfect, and seek corrections. Thought the CT map (with some NY) was quite interesting.Submitted by CTHistory42 t3_10gx1la in Connecticut
Whaddaulookinat t1_j55tyjb wrote
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There do seem to be outposts of Algonquin settlers in the New England/NYS area that probably arrived only a century or two before European contact... But the numbers may be fairly small and likely would've had more political contact with surrounding tribes.
Swede577 t1_j56bccs wrote
The Quinnipiac's that spoke Algonquin at one point controlled all of CT.
Since 1997, more extensive research, based on linguistics and early historical records, has extended the boundaries of the 1500-1600 AD Quiripi/Renapi/Quinnipiac confederacies to include all of what is now Connecticut, eastern New York, northern New Jersey, and half of Long Island (prior to the immigration of the Pequot/Mohegan peoples into eastern CT
WikiSummarizerBot t1_j56be5h wrote
>Quinnipiac is the English name for the Eansketambawg (meaning "original people"; cf. Ojibwe: Anishinaabeg and Blackfoot: Niitsítapi), a Quiripi-speaking Native American nation of the Algonquian family who inhabited the Wampanoki (i. e. , "Dawnland"; c.
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Whaddaulookinat t1_j56cjkf wrote
Very interesting, thank you!
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