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[[File:Longisland1.png|thumb|267px|The "Canarsee" are shown settled where [[Brooklyn]] is today.<ref name="Strong, John A. 1997">Strong, John A. ''Algonquian Peoples of Long Island'', Heart of the Lakes Publishing (March 1997). {{ISBN|978-1-55787-148-0}}</ref><ref name="Bragdon, Kathleen 2002">Bragdon, Kathleen. ''The Columbia Guide to American Indians of the Northeast,''Columbia University Press (2002). {{ISBN|978-0-231-11452-3}}</ref>]]
The '''Canarsee''' (also '''Canarse''' and '''Canarsie''') were a band of [[Munsee language|Munsee]]-speaking [[Lenape]] who inhabited the westernmost end of [[Long Island]]<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=qP-7BxjLV-8C&dq=metoac&pg=PA176 ''Encyclopedia of New Jersey Indians: Encyclopedia of Native Peoples'', Donald Ricky, 1998, p. 176]</ref> at the time the [[Dutch Empire|Dutch]] colonized [[New Amsterdam]] in the 1620s and 1630s.
They are credited with selling the island of [[Manhattan]] to the Dutch, even though they only occupied its lower reaches, with the balance the seasonal hunting grounds of the [[Wecquaesgeek]] of the [[Wappinger]] people to the north.<ref name=nb>[http://www.americanheritage.com/24-swindle "The $24 Swindle"], Nathaniel Benchley, ''American Heritage'', 1959, Vol 11, Issue 1</ref>
The Canarsee were among the peoples who were conflated with other Long Island bands into a group called the [[Metoac]], an aggregation which failed to recognize their linguistic differences and varying tribal affinities.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=e_IH2lYdHecC&dq=13+tribes+of+Long+Island&pg=PR10 Nathaniel Scudder, ''A History of Long Island From Its First Settlement By Europeans to the Year 1845''], New York: 1845</ref>
==Name==
As was common practice early in the days of white European colonisation of North America, a people came to be associated with a place, with its name displacing theirs among the colonies and those associated with them, such as explorers, mapmakers, trading company superiors who sponsored many of the early settlements, and officials in the colonizers' mother country in Europe.  This was the case of the "Canarsee" people,{{efn|Alternative spellings include the above ''Canarsie'' and ''Canarse'', as well as ''Canarise'', ''Canarisse'', and ''Canarsii''.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=mpRrp_PJnFIC&dq=metoac+canarse&pg=PA41 ''Tribal Names of the Americas: Spelling Variants and Alternative Forms, Cross-Referenced''], Patricia Roberts Clark, 2009, p. 41;</ref>}} whose name, to the extent they identified with one, is lost in history.
==Sale of Manhattan==
It is the "Canarse" [sic], who only utilized the very southern end of [[Manhattan]] island, the [[Manhattoe#Manhattoes/Manhattans (place)|Manhattoes]], as a hunting ground, who are credited with selling [[Peter Minuit]] the entirety of the island for $24 in 1639.<ref name=nb/> A confusion of possession on the part of the Canarsees who failed to tell the Dutch that the balance of island was the hunting ground of the [[Wecquaesgeek]], a [[Wappinger]] band of southwest [[Westchester County, New York|Westchester County]].<ref name=nb/>
==Red Hook Lane Heritage Trail==
Red Hook Lane, a Canarsee path thru the marshland was in colonial times the main trail from [[Brooklyn Heights]] to [[Red Hook, Brooklyn|Red Hook]]. The Red Hook Lane Heritage Trail in Red Hook marks in a zig-zag fashion where the old indian trail was to Cypress Tree Island. It begins at the [[Red Hook Lane Arresick]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://southbrooklyn.com/2020/01/01/red-hook/|title = Red Hook|date = January 2020}}</ref>
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