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| History |
Two major groups of Indian tribes were living
in the New York region when Europeans first arrived: the Mahican
(Mohican) and Munsee tribes of the Algonquian family near the
Atlantic coast and, farther inland, the five tribes of the Iroquois—Mohawk,
Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca—which formed the
Iroquois Confederacy about 1570.
New York was originally settled as a colony of the Netherlands
following Henry Hudson's exploration in 1609 of the river later
named for him. In 1624 the Dutch established Fort Orange at
modern Albany as the first permanent European settlement in
New York. One year later New Amsterdam was established at the
foot of Manhattan Island. New York contains many of the battlegrounds
of the American Revolution. The war in New York took on many
of the characteristics of a civil war, since the area probably
had a higher proportion of residents who were loyal to the crown
than did any other colony.
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