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Iroquois lands circa 1720 A map showing the Phelps and Gorham Purchase, the Morris Reserve, and the Holland Purchase. Aboriginal title in New York refers to treaties, purchases, laws and litigation associated with land titles of aboriginal peoples of New York, in particular, to dispossession of those lands by actions of European Americans.
This is a list of neighborhoods in the New York City borough of Manhattan arranged geographically from the north of the island to the south. The following approximate definitions are used: Upper Manhattan is the area above 96th Street. Midtown Manhattan is the area between 34th Street and 59th Street. Lower Manhattan is the area below 14th Street.
Aboriginal place names of New York. New York State Education Department, New York State Museum. Bright, William (2004). Native American Place Names of the United States. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. Campbell, Lyle (1997). American Indian Languages: The Historical Linguistics of Native America. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
City of Sherrill v. Oneida Indian Nation of New York, 544 U.S. 197 (2005), was a Supreme Court of the United States case in which the Court held that repurchase of traditional tribal lands 200 years later did not restore tribal sovereignty to that land. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote the majority opinion. [1]
With Native-Lands, Temprano was able to use cutting-edge mapping to explore the legacy of a wide variety of borders not often seen in the mainstream. 📚Read Up: The History of Indigenous Peoples
New York City is split up into five boroughs: the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island.Each borough has the same boundaries as a county of the state. The county governments were dissolved when the city consolidated in 1898, along with all city, town, and village governments within each county.
Northernmost Manhattan has lower rents than more central areas. A studio averages around $1,500, and one-bedrooms about $1,800. The spacious Inwood Hill Park offers wooded trails, lush lawns and ...
State Designated Tribal Statistical Areas are geographical areas the United States Census Bureau uses to track demographic data. These areas have a substantial concentration of members of tribes that are State recognized but not Federally recognized and do not have a reservation or off-reservation trust land.