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The Assunpink Trail was a Native American trail in what later became Middlesex, Somerset, and Mercer counties in the central and western part of New Jersey.Like Assunpink Creek, the trail takes its name from the Lenape language Ahsën'pink, meaning "stony, watery place".
The colonial settlers described the Kechemeche as a robust, healthy people, who hunted and grew crops, such as corn, squash, and beans.In Kechemeche society, women did the growing of crops, the cooking and other household and child-rearing chores, while the men were generally responsible for maintaining security and for providing meat for their families through hunting.
The history of what is now New Jersey begins at the end of the Younger Dryas, about 15,000 years ago. Native Americans moved into New town reversal of the Younger Dryas; before then an ice sheet hundreds of feet thick had made the area of northern New Jersey uninhabitable.
Sculptures of Native Americans in New Jersey (1 P) Pages in category "Native American history of New Jersey" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total.
Historically, they lived along the upper portion of the Delaware River, the Minisink, and the adjacent country in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. They were prominent in the early history of New York and New Jersey, being among the first Indigenous peoples of that region to encounter European colonizers.
Native Americans in New Jersey weren't just skilled hunters and gatherers. A new book describes the food-rich landscapes they created.
The Elizabethtown Tract was a property that was purchased on October 28, 1664, by John Baily, Daniel Denton and Luke Watson from the Native Americans that is in the area of (and surrounding) present-day Elizabeth, New Jersey. The Native American witnesses to the treaty gave their names as Warinanco and Mattano.
The culinary history of any one family, clan or tribe was lost or obscured in the centuries of violence against Native people and mass relocation of tribes, often to environments with vastly ...