Quinnipiac
The Quinnipiac were a historical Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands. They lived in present-day New Haven County, Connecticut, along the Quinnipiac River. Their primary village, also called Quinnipiac, was where New Haven, Connecticut is today.
Key facts
- Ethnic group.group
- Quinnipiac
- Ethnic group.image
- File:Quinnipiac-River-Connecticut.jpg
- Ethnic group.image_caption
- The Quinnipiac River looking west into the Quinnipiac River Gorge
- Ethnic group.total
- extinct as a tribe; merged into the Stockbridge Munsee Community and Brotherton Indian Community, now in Wisconsin
- Ethnic group.regions
- United States (Connecticut)
- Ethnic group.languages
- Quiripi language
- Ethnic group.religions
- Indigenous religion
- Ethnic group.related_groups
- other Wappinger peoples
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Article
9 sectionsContents
- Name
- Language
- Political structure
- History
- 17th century
- 18th century
- References
- Sources
- External links
The Quinnipiac were a historical Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands. They lived in present-day New Haven County, Connecticut, along the Quinnipiac River. Their primary village, also called Quinnipiac, was where New Haven, Connecticut is today.
== Name == The Quinnipiac name translates as "Long-water people." It was also spelled Quienepiage, Quenepiake, Qunnipiéuk, Qunnipiuck, Qunnipiug, Quinnpiipuck, Quunnipieuck, and Qvinipiak.