On This Site - Native Long Island, New York

On This Site - Native Long Island, New York On This Site preserves and shares Native History on Long Island, NY.

This project involves the preservation of culturally significant locations around my community in Long Island, New York through photography. I’ve always been curious about how the Shinnecock people and reservation were able to remain on Long Island, so close to where one of the major arrival areas of colonization, and why we are where we’re located now, along with where we settled before our reser

vation. This project presents an opportunity to reflect upon archaeological and oral histories to answer these essential culturally defining questions. My hope is to create curiosity for all audiences, as it creates a dialogue between indigenous and non-indigenous people on Long Island, and legitimizes the Long Island indigenous population beyond their borders on reservations. By presenting the archaeological research in the format of photography, it presents to the public a new understanding of communal awareness and cultural enlightenment, which leads to cultural critique, historical inquiry, and educational development. On This Site has been made possible by Running Strong for Indian Youth—a nonprofit organization that was co-founded by Billy Mills, a Native American who won an Olympic gold medal—and is intended to give back to the American Indian community through different initiatives.

Whale's Fin, on Shinnecock Ancestral Land, is a Shinnecock sacred and cultural place near Shinnecock Inlet, remembered i...
08/30/2026

Whale's Fin, on Shinnecock Ancestral Land, is a Shinnecock sacred and cultural place near Shinnecock Inlet, remembered in oral history through whaling, whales coming ashore, and the changing barrier-beach landscape.

Whale's Fin connects Shinnecock maritime knowledge with a living cultural landscape. It carries histories of whaling skill, coastal change, and continuing relationships among Shinnecock people, whales, the bay, and the ocean.

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https://nativelongisland.com/?site=whales-fin&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=daily-site-pin

Conegums, on Corchaug Ancestral Land, is a Mattituck creek name recorded by William Wallace Tooker, an early 20th-centur...
08/28/2026

Conegums, on Corchaug Ancestral Land, is a Mattituck creek name recorded by William Wallace Tooker, an early 20th-century researcher of Long Island place names,. He identifies the stream with Reeve's Creek, later known as James Creek, near the boundary between Southold and Riverhead.

Conegums preserves a Mattituck creek name interpreted as a boundary, identified with Reeve's Creek and later James Creek near the Southold-Riverhead line. As a named bound, the creek shows how waterways could organize land agreements, movement, and memory across the North Fork. Creeks were not minor features; they could mark limits, guide travel, and carry...

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https://nativelongisland.com/?site=conegums&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=daily-site-pin

Shinnecock Monument, on Shinnecock Ancestral Land, is connected to this history: The Shinnecock Monument is an economic ...
08/27/2026

Shinnecock Monument, on Shinnecock Ancestral Land, is connected to this history: The Shinnecock Monument is an economic development project launched in early May 2019. The Shinnecock Nation's goal with this project is to generate revenue to provide for its people. Being a sovereign nation, The Shinnecock Nation maintains the right to build on its land and pursue commerce free from civil regulatory restrictions improperly imposed by New York State.

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https://nativelongisland.com/?site=shinnecock-monument&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=daily-site-pin

Help test the On This Site Android app and shape how people explore Native Long Island history.Beta testers can explore ...
08/26/2026

Help test the On This Site Android app and shape how people explore Native Long Island history.

Beta testers can explore the map and guided learning paths, report confusing steps, suggest well-documented sites, join respectful discussions, and contribute photographs from appropriate public site visits.

To join the closed beta, DM or send us the Google-account email address used on your Android phone. We must add that exact address before the private Google Play link will work.

After we confirm your invitation, open the beta link while signed in to that same Google account, try one or two features, and tell us what should improve next:
https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.nativelongisland.onthissite?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=feature-highlight



South Harbor, on Corchaug Ancestral Land, is connected to this history: South Harbor appears in Southold records during ...
08/26/2026

South Harbor, on Corchaug Ancestral Land, is connected to this history: South Harbor appears in Southold records during a period of increasing pressure on Corchaug land. Town records set aside about 120 acres there in 1685, but a 1763 Native petition disputed later claims that the community had settled at South Harbor and stated that descendants had lived at Indian Neck since 1691.

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https://nativelongisland.com/?site=south-harbor&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=daily-site-pin

Poggatacut - Manhanset sachem of Shelter Island.Poggatacut's fragmentary record keeps Manhanset leadership, council dipl...
08/26/2026

Poggatacut - Manhanset sachem of Shelter Island.

Poggatacut's fragmentary record keeps Manhanset leadership, council diplomacy, and Indigenous land relationships visible before the colonial town story. His history belongs to a network of Native leaders and communities.

What questions do you have about Manhanset leadership and Shelter Island history?

Explore the full history, sources, and related context: https://nativelongisland.com/?wiki=poggatacut-sachem-of-the-manhassets-of-shelter-island&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=weekly-visual-knowledgebase

in history, August 26, 2020, Shinnecock people and supporters gathered at Southampton Town Hall to demand stronger pro...
08/26/2026

in history, August 26, 2020, Shinnecock people and supporters gathered at Southampton Town Hall to demand stronger protection for ancestral burial places in the Shinnecock Hills.

The rally pressed the town to move on a Graves Protection Act and a construction moratorium after years of Shinnecock advocacy against development on sensitive ancestral ground. The demand was direct: Native burial places deserve protection, consultation, and respect before more land is disturbed.

Learn more about the history, source limits, and respectful context:
https://nativelongisland.com/?site=sugar-loaf-hill

Image: Sugar Loaf Hill, one of the Shinnecock Hills places tied to burial protection, land defense, and ongoing Shinnecock stewardship.

Sources: WSHU, "Shinnecock Indian Nation Demands Burial Site Protections At Southampton Rally," August 26, 2020; Patch, "Shinnecock Nation Demands Moratorium To Protect Ancestral Graves," September 1, 2020.

Fort Corchaug, on Corchaug Ancestral Land, is a seventeenth-century Indigenous fortified site on the North Fork connecte...
08/25/2026

Fort Corchaug, on Corchaug Ancestral Land, is a seventeenth-century Indigenous fortified site on the North Fork connected with Corchaug community life, wampum production, diplomacy, trade, and the disruptions of Dutch and English colonial expansion. Archaeology suggests a double-palisade enclosure used during the contact period, but the fort also belongs to a longer Native landscape and community history.

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https://nativelongisland.com/?site=fort-corchaug&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=daily-site-pin

West Woods Sweat Lodge - West Woods is a contemporary Shinnecock ceremonial landscape. Its public description stays broa...
08/24/2026

West Woods Sweat Lodge - West Woods is a contemporary Shinnecock ceremonial landscape. Its public description stays broad to respect community privacy and ceremonial knowledge.

Shinnecock ceremonial life continues in living community spaces, not only in historic records. Late twentieth-century accounts document the return and continuation of Shinnecock sweat-lodge ceremonies, including the role of Shinnecock community members and relatives from connected Native communities. References: John A...

Learn more about the history, source limits, and respectful context:
https://nativelongisland.com/?site=west-woods-sweat-lodge&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=daily-site-pin

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