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Wappinger Indian Divisions

Leave a Comment / Connecticut, Native American, New York / 3 minutes of reading

Last Updated on August 4, 2014 by Sub-tribes, bands and divisions of the Wappinger Tribe of Indians. Kitchawak Kitchawak (perhaps akin to Chippewa Kichŭchǐwǐnk ‘at the great niybtaub.’ (W. Jones). Apparently a band or small tribe, or, as Ruttenber designates it, a “chieftaincy” of the Wappinger confederacy, formerly residing on the east bank of the […]

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From Poughkeepsie to Kingston along the Hudson River

Leave a Comment / New York / 28 minutes of reading

Last Updated on January 6, 2014 by Dennis Leaving the Poughkeepsie dock the steamer approaches the Poughkeepsie Bridge which, from Blue Point and miles below, has seemed to the traveler like a delicate bit of lace-work athwart the landscape, or like an old-fashioned “valance” which used to hang from Dutch bedsteads in the Hudson River

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