Opening from On This Site - Native Long Island

Wickham Cuffee

Wickham Cuffee (1826–1915) was a Shinnecock whaler, navigator, trustee, Presbyterian elder, basketmaker, farmer, and keeper of family and community knowledge. Wickham Cuffee’s biography connects Shinnecock maritime expertise, land governance, language and architectural knowledge, craft, church life, and family memory while directly rejecting the false ‘last Indian’ framing imposed by outside writers.