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Paleo-Indians arrive in New York Area. As the climate warms, the Native Americans adjust to the changes.
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The Shinnecock Tribes in New York start small gardens of corn, beans, squash, pumpkin and tobacco.
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The Italian sailed for Francis I of France to New York harbor and met the Algonquian Native Americans
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The British Navigator sailed for the Dutch and explored the Hudson River.
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Smallpox nearly wipes out the American Indian population
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1624 The Dutch colonist establish Fort Orange at what is now know as Albany and New Amsterdam, later known as New York on Manhattan Island.
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The Dutch and Algoquians tribes, espicially the Lenape an their allies. The Dutch surrender to the English in 1664, they take New Netherlands from the Dutch and rename it New York.
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The Southhampton land is leased to the Shinnecock Tribe for 1,000 years.
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It was the law for annual elections of three tribal trustees.
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The reservation is 800 acres, it has a musuem, shellfish hatchery, education center, playground and a Presbyterian church
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Powwows developed from ceremonies that were held since 1912. these Powwows help The Shinnock to spread knowledge about their cuture an customs and to bring money into their community,
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The Tribe is requesting the return of 3,500 acres of land in Southhampton and millions in reparations for damages caused by the land being sold illegally in 1859 since it broke the 1,000 year lease signed in 1703.
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it took 30 years for the Shinnecock Nation to be federally recgonized by the U.S. Bureu of indian Affairs
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The Shinnecock men were great sailors, fishermen and whalers. They built dugout canoes by hollowing out large trees
