Siwanoy

Native American tribe of the Wappinger Confederacy

The Siwanoy were a tribe of Native Americans who lived mostly in The Bronx and Westchester County, New York.[1] They were part of a group of tribes called the Wappinger-Mattabesec Confederacy.[2]

Today, the descendants of the Siwanoy people live all across the United States.

References change

  1. Cook, Sherburne Friend (1976). The Indian Population of New England in the Seventeenth Century. University of California Press. p. 60. ISBN 0-520-09553-7.
  2. Pell, Robert T. (1965). "Thomas Pell II (1675/76-1739): Third Lord of the Manor of Pelham". Pelliana: Pell of Pelham. New Series, vol. I (3): 25–48.