Opening from On This Site - Native Long Island

Shinnecock Ancestral Land

Shinnecock people have belonged to this Southampton homeland since time immemorial. Shinnecock Bay, the Hills and Canoe Place connect ancestral life with a living nation. Colonial land loss and later development reduced access to this much larger homeland; they did not end Shinnecock belonging. Today the Shinnecock Indian Nation sustains self-government, family and cultural life, with community on and beyond the reservation and continuing ties to Westwoods. Shinnecock Ancestral Land presents Southampton and the South Fork as the homeland of a living Native nation. It connects early records, Native leadership, land protection, cultural continuity, and present-day Shinnecock sovereignty. The reservation is a living community within a wider homeland, not the beginning or the outer limit of Shinnecock history. Southampton's older place names, coastal routes and gathering places preserve...