Canarsee
The "Canarsee" are shown settled where Brooklyn is today. | |
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| extinct as a tribe | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Kings County, Long Island, and Staten Island, New York, U.S. | |
| Languages | |
| Munsee language | |
| Religion | |
| Indigenous religion | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| other Munsee people |
The Canarsee were a band of Munsee-speaking Lenape who inhabited the westernmost end of Long Island and Staten Island at the time the Dutch colonized New Amsterdam in the 1620s and 1630s.
They are credited with selling the island of Manhattan to the Dutch, even though they only occupied its lower reaches, with the balance the seasonal hunting grounds of the Wecquaesgeek of the Wappinger people to the north.