Part III focuses on two little-remembered, transient areas of post-Civil War West PhiladelphiaMaylandville and Laniganvilleand the short-lived neighborhood of Greenville. Part IV highlight owner-occupied mansions, among other developments. Siwanoy culture, including their democratic structure, their kinship system, their . Daniel Nimham and the Wappinger Tribe's challenge to the Philipse . Learn how your comment data is processed. In 1633, Dutch and Swedish investors, under the leadership of Peter Minuit, formed the New South Company; the Dutch had already been involved in colonization along the Hudson River. Natural things such as the river waters, the land, mountains, the sky and all living things had sacred spirits which were acknowledged and respected. Their pride is to paint their faces strangely with red or black lead, so that they look like fiends. The names of the river and valley were usurped by a man named Hudson, whose people came from the east and, in the comparative blink of an eye, nearly ended a . Nimham, his son and heir Abraham, and some forty warriors were killed or mortally wounded in theBattle of Kingsbridge in theBronxon August 30, 1778. Native American buildings The smaller version characterized the Lenape encampments in the Philadelphia region. Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes, Third Edition is a fully updated reference discussing more than 200 American Indian tribes of North America, as well as prehistoric peoples and civilizations. Their range was the east bank of the Hudson River to the Connecticut River Valley, and including Manhattan Island. For some marriage lasted a lifetime, but for others this union ended in divorce. [1], To the south their range included the western part of today's Bronx along the Hudson and Harlem Rivers,[2] and included the upper three-quarters of Manhattan island,[19][20] which they did not permanently occupy but used as a hunting ground. Historical and Genealogical Record Dutchess and Putnam Counties, New York, Press of the A. V. Haight Co., Poughkeepsie, New York, 1912, Murray, Jean and Osborn, Penny Ann. Transportation innovation and real estate development cumulated in the creation of a streetcar suburb in the city by the end of the 19th century.