Wepawaugs, Indian tribe that lived on the East bank of the Housatonic river, probably part of the . The tribe is based in Wisconsin and is descendants of the Wappinger tribe that has roots in New York state. The camps were occupied until the "contact period" in the early 1600s. The Wappinger (/wpndr/) were a Native American people group from southern New York and western Connecticut.They are part of the Northeastern Woodlands culture. [8], Long after their original settlements had been decimated by wars with the colonists, wars with other Indian tribes, questionable land sales, waves of diseases brought by the Europeans, and absorption into other tribes, their last sachem and a group of their heavily dwindled people were residing at the "prayer town" sanctuary of Stockbridge, Massachusetts. The indigenous people who inhabited the land that became Philadelphia were the Lenape (also Lenni Lenape; their English moniker was Delaware); they were displaced by Quakers and other religious minorities that settled the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the late 17th and 18th centuries. The first contact with Europeans came in 1609, when Henry Hudson's expedition reached this area on the Half Moon. Birds such as herons, pigeons, eagles, hawks, and turkeys were hunted. The Golden Hill Paugussett tribe has been a part of Greater Bridgeport's history from time immemorial. The Powhatan tribe, also spelled Powatan and Powhatan, are a Virginia Indian tribe that dominated eastern Virginia when the English settled Jamestown in 1607. [11], While Edward Manning Ruttenber suggested in 1872 that there had been a Wappinger Confederacy, as did anthropologist James Mooney in 1910, Ives Goddard contests their view. [7], The Wequaesgeek, a Wappinger people living along the lower Hudson River near today's New York City, were among the very first to be recorded encountering European adventurers and traders when Henry Hudson's Half Moon appeared in 1609. In 1666, the Dutch New Netherlands permanently became part of the British Empire. Women taught daughters how to gather edible plants and tend to the children. From the 1680s until the Revolutionary War, the remaining Wappingers began slowly leaving this area, joining the Lenape, the Mohicans to the north, and even joining their former enemies, the Iroquois, who were all suffering from the upheavals of white settlement, disease and war. Some women also came to us with hempe. Some of the women are very well featured, having long countenances. NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURE - PAGE 2. update 4-1-14. Just as a name of one of their trails, the Wickquasgeck, was given to the people so another conflation by white settlers further confounded their identity, when they were mistakenly referred to as the Manhattoes after a place of that name on the southern tip of Manhattan Island. Levine, David. sites have been found around the region dating to 9000 B.C. Paleo-Indian (15,000 to 7000 B.C.) Sarah Shoran and Eunice Shoran, the "surviving heirs of the Pequanok/Paugussett Indians" petitioned to have the land reclaimed. Early in the 17th century the Wappinger lived along the east bank of the Hudson River from Manhattan Island to what is now Poughkeepsie and eastward to the lower Connecticut River valley. They were closely related to the Mahican on the north and the Delaware on the south . Each linguistic group tended to transliterate Native American names according to their own languages. Pennsylvania appears to be the only state without a university-level Native American studies program or cultural center. MEMBERSHIP. [1], To the south their range included the western part of today's Bronx along the Hudson and Harlem Rivers,[2] and included the upper three-quarters of Manhattan island,[19][20] which they did not permanently occupy but used as a hunting ground. Due to their heavy tillage of the land, the soils they farmed gradually lost their productivity. Nimham did not give up the cause. Swedish traders encountered the Lenape in the 18th century, as did Dutch traders. <br><br><i>Must be</i> comfortable working with all ages and have experience with common urgent care . The origin of the name Wappinger is unknown. Go back to the list of American Indian tribes . A nomadic people belonging to the Algonquin language family, the Lenape preceded the late 17th century European settlement of Pennsylvania by centuries.