Canarsee

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Canarsee (plural Canarsees or Canarsee)

  1. (historical) A member of a band of Munsee-speaking Lenape who inhabited the westernmost end of Long Island at the time the Dutch colonized New Amsterdam in the 1620s and 1630s.

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