Opening from On This Site - Native Long Island

Anuskkummikak

Anuskkummikak is an Indigenous place name connected with the upland part of Little East Neck in Babylon, formerly also called Captain Fleet's Neck. The surviving description places the name on the upland planting ground rather than the creek or meadow. Anuskkummikak preserves a Native description of Little East Neck as planting land, linking the Babylon shoreline to foodways, seasonal work, and careful land use. Its variant spellings show how a Native agricultural term was carried into colonial records through imperfect English writing. Fields, necks, and waterways were part of connected community landscapes across Indigenous Long Island. Recorded forms include Anusbymonika, Anuskcomuncak, Amuskemunnica, and Wamskcumuncake. The name is interpreted as land to hoe or break up, planting land, corn fields, or plowed ground. Wainskcumuncake is a cross-reference spelling kept with this Little...