Siwanoy
Sign in to saveThe Siwanoy () were an Indigenous American band of Munsee-speaking people, who lived in Long Island Sound along the coasts of what are now The Bronx, Westchester County, New York, and Fairfield County, Connecticut. They were one of the western bands of the Wappinger Confederacy. By 1640, their territory (Wykagyl) extended from Hell Gate to Norwalk, Connecticut, and as far inland as White Plains; it became hotly contested between Dutch and English colonial interests.
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- Name
- Language
- Culture
- Settlements
- Religion
- 17th-century history
- Conflict with European colonists
- Treaty with Thomas Pell
- Merger and removal
- 18th- to 19th-century history
- Descendants
- Notable Siwanoys
- Notable Siwanoy descendants
- See also
- Footnotes
- References
- External links
The Siwanoy () were an Indigenous American band of Munsee-speaking people, who lived in Long Island Sound along the coasts of what are now The Bronx, Westchester County, New York, and Fairfield County, Connecticut. They were one of the western bands of the Wappinger Confederacy. By 1640, their territory (Wykagyl) extended from Hell Gate to Norwalk, Connecticut, and as far inland as White Plains; it became hotly contested between Dutch and English colonial interests.
== Name == thumb|The Siwanoy are listed in southern Westchester County, New York, and westernmost [[Fairfield County, Connecticut on this excerpt of Novi Belgii Novæque Angliæ (Amsterdam, 1685).]] The origin of the name Siwanoy is unknown. It appears at least as early in that spelling on the 1685 revision of a 1656 Dutch map, Novi Belgii Novæque Angliæ ("New Netherland and New England", and also parts of Virginia, by Petrus Schenk the Younger from an original by Nicolaes Visscher I.
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