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- Metoac abstract "Metoac is a term erroneously used to describe Native Americans on Long Island in New York, in the belief that bands were distinct tribes of this location. Scholars now understand that these historic peoples were part of two major cultural groups: the Lenape and Pequot peoples, both part of the Algonquian languages family. The amateur anthropologist Silas Wood published a book in the 19th century mistakenly claiming that several American Indian tribes were distinct to Long Island, New York. He collectively called them the Metoac.Modern scientific scholarship has shown that Native American peoples on the island belonged to two major language and cultural groups among the Algonquian peoples who occupied Atlantic coastal areas from Canada through the American South. The bands in the western part of Long Island were Lenape, related to peoples in what is now western Connecticut, lower New York, New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania. Those to the east were more related culturally and linguistically to the Algonquian tribes of New England across Long Island Sound, such as the Pequot. Wood (and earlier colonial settlers) often confused Indian place names, by which the bands were known, as the names for different "tribes" living there.Wood may have derived his collective term from metau-hok, the Algonquian word for the rough periwinkle, which played an important role in the economy of the region before and after the arrival of Europeans. Those entering western Long Island were mostly Dutch colonists, some from New Netherland. The eastern part of the island was colonized by English settlers from southern New England. Indigenous populations declined significantly within a few decades of European contact, due to diseases. Many of the place names given by the Lenape and Pequot populations are still in use today. The Shinnecock Indian Nation, based at what is now Southampton, New York in Suffolk County, has gained federal recognition as a tribe and has a reservation there.".
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- Metoac wikiPageRevisionID "603119087".
- Metoac hasPhotoCollection Metoac.
- Metoac subject Category:Algonquian_ethnonyms.
- Metoac subject Category:Algonquian_peoples.
- Metoac subject Category:Nassau_County,_New_York.
- Metoac subject Category:Native_American_tribes_in_New_York.
- Metoac subject Category:People_of_New_Netherland.
- Metoac subject Category:Suffolk_County,_New_York.
- Metoac type Abstraction100002137.
- Metoac type AlgonquianPeoples.
- Metoac type Group100031264.
- Metoac type NativeAmericanTribesInNewYork.
- Metoac type People107942152.
- Metoac type SocialGroup107950920.
- Metoac type Tribe108372411.
- Metoac comment "Metoac is a term erroneously used to describe Native Americans on Long Island in New York, in the belief that bands were distinct tribes of this location. Scholars now understand that these historic peoples were part of two major cultural groups: the Lenape and Pequot peoples, both part of the Algonquian languages family. The amateur anthropologist Silas Wood published a book in the 19th century mistakenly claiming that several American Indian tribes were distinct to Long Island, New York.".
- Metoac label "Metoac".
- Metoac label "Metoac".
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- Metoac sameAs m.03d62my.
- Metoac sameAs Q638816.
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- Metoac sameAs Metoac.
- Metoac wasDerivedFrom Metoac?oldid=603119087.
- Metoac depiction Longisland1.png.
- Metoac isPrimaryTopicOf Metoac.