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xxx Hackensack; Hackensack spoke the Unami dialect, one of the three major parts of the Lenape languages, which were part of the Algonquian language family. Unami meant the "people down river",[1] and they identified themselves with the totem of the turtle ("Turtle Clan"). New Amsterdam (at the tip of Manhattan) lived nearby, the Hackensack had early and frequent contact with the New Netherlanders. They traded beaver, pelts, sewant, manufactured goods, including firearms, gunpowder and alcohol. notable Hackensack; Oratam (or Oritani) was sagamore, or sachem, of the Hackensack Indians living in northeastern New Jersey during the period of early European colonization in the 17th century. he lived an unusually long life (almost 90 years) and was influential. The Hackensacks were a sub-group of the Unami, or Turtle Clan, of the Lenni-Lenape, numbering close to a thousand Hackensack numbered about one thousand,[6] of whom 300 were warriors.[5] Their sachem (or high chief

2018 thxgvn notes

xxx The original Thanksgiving was marked by prayer and thanks for the untimely deaths of most of the Wampanoag Tribe due to smallpox contracted from earlier European visitors. Thus when the Pilgrims arrived they found the fields already cleared and planted, and they called them their own. Puppompogs, Sasacus's brother, "at Mohegan." Given to the Mohegan, after the Pequot Incineration. War/Extermination/Incinerated. xxx 1623 these Hollanders founded a trading post at what is still known as Dutch Point, in the city of Hartford, on the north side of Little River, now known as the Park River. 1623. Governor William Bradford of Plymouth Colony called for a day of solemn prayer to seek God's mercy to end a drought. When they received rain, he proclaimed a day of thanksgiving (in the summer of 1623): xxx are you sure you aren't supposed to be eating alligator? 1541; grapes & pecans; Canyon TX; 80 years ago; b4 William Bradford was shaken down by Chief Massasoit's