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    The Wappinger are the namesake of several areas in New York, including: Town of Wappinger Village of Wappingers Falls Wappinger Creek Wappinger Trail...
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    Wecquaesgeek (category Wappinger)
    Wecquaesgeek (also Manhattoe and Manhattan) were a Munsee-speaking band of Wappinger people who once lived along the east bank of the Hudson River in the southwest...
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    Rhinebeck Stanford Union Vale Wappinger Washington Fishkill Millbrook Millerton Pawling Red Hook Rhinebeck Tivoli Wappingers Falls Amenia Arlington Bard...
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    Munsee to their west, known by the dialect of Lenape that they spoke, and Wappinger to the south, were called "the River Indians" by the Dutch and English...
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  • Tawana Brawley rape allegations (category Wappinger, New York)
    a trash bag after having been missing for four days from her home in Wappingers Falls, New York. She had racial slurs written on her body and was covered...
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    Daniel Nimham (category Wappinger people)
    period of European contact, the population of the Wappingers was in the thousands. They Wappinger band proper (one of a dozen or more bands in the Confederacy)...
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    Municipal Hall on Main Street U.S. Route 9 leads north 5 miles (8 km) to Wappingers Falls, north 12 miles (19 km) to Poughkeepsie, and south 19 miles (31 km)...
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    with the balance the seasonal hunting grounds of the Wecquaesgeek of the Wappinger people to the north. The Canarsee were among the peoples who were conflated...
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  • Siwanoy (category Wappinger)
    Fairfield County, Connecticut. They were one of the western bands of the Wappinger Confederacy. By 1640, their territory (Wykagyl) extended from Hell Gate...
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  • Romaneck, the paramount chief over the Wappinger "confederacy". The Siwanoys, one of the western bands of the Wappingers, were involved in Kieft's War and...
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