Opening from On This Site - Native Long Island

Setauket Ancestral Land

Setauket and Setalcott homelands connect north-central Long Island shorelines, villages, deeds, descendant community memory, and contemporary cultural education. Setauket Ancestral Land presents the north-central shore as Native homeland, not only as colonial-settlement history. It connects language, villages, land records, descendant community memory, and contemporary cultural education. Setauket and Setalcott homelands are remembered around Setauket, Stony Brook, Port Jefferson, Wading River, and North Shore necks, harbors, streams, and inland routes. The name appears in sources alongside Setalcott and other spellings shaped by colonial record keeping. John A. Strong's critique of the "thirteen tribes" map matters here because Setauket/Setalcott identity is both historical and continuing. The old list can flatten Native life into fixed territories, but records around Warawakmy, the...