Shinnecocks: Painful story of an enduring people
This story appeared in Newsday on Feb. 22, 1998, as part of the "Long Island: Our Story'' history series.
Though Shinnecocks roamed what is now Southampton at the time of the first white settlement in the mid-17th Century, they lost ground steadily after that. By 1859, they were relegated to about 800 acres they have held ever since at the Shinnecock Indian Reservation.
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