Wecquaesgeek

Wecquaesgeek
This 1685 reprint of a 1656 map indicates "Wickquaskeck" in Westchester County above Manhattan island and "Manhattans" on it.
Total population
No longer a distinct tribe
Regions with significant populations
New York
Languages
Munsee language
Religion
Indigenous religion
Related ethnic groups
other Lenape tribes

The 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 of today's Westchester County, New York,[1] and down into the Bronx.[2]

  1. ^ Their presence on the east bank of the Hudson River in today's Westchester County is clearly labeled on the 1685 revision by Petrus Schenk Junior, Novi Belgii Novæque Angliæ, of a 1656 map by Nicolaes Visscher.
  2. ^ Sultzman, Lee (1997). "Wappinger History". Retrieved 14 January 2012.