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.
Key facts
- Ethnic group.group
- Wappinger
- Ethnic group.image
- Excerpt from Map-Novi Belgii Novæque Angliæ (Amsterdam, 1685).jpg
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- 1.2
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- Wappinger territory (in center, "Wappinges"), from a copy of a 1685 reinterpretation of a 1656 map
- Ethnic group.pop
- Extinct as a tribe,descendants joined the Stockbridge-Munsee
- Ethnic group.popplace
- United States (New York)
- Ethnic group.languages
- Eastern Algonquian languages, probably Munsee
- Ethnic group.religions
- traditional tribal religion
- Ethnic group.related
- Other Algonquian peoples
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