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Lost Matinecock Tribe of Flushing, College Point, Whitestone, Bayside, Douglaston, Little Neck, NY

(Update: I am very happy to report there are still members of the Matinecock Tribe still residing in Little Neck, Queens) For centuries before the mid-1600s the Matinecock Indians, a branch of the Algonquin Nation established villages at what are now Flushing, Pomonok, College Point, Whitestone, Bayside, Douglaston, Little Neck, and various sites along the North Shore of Long Island. When the Dutch established the town of Vlissingen (now Flushing) in 1645, at least 30 Native American families were living there. But in 1662, a smallpox epidemic spread through Queens, killing huge numbers of the indigenous people. The last piece of Flushing was purchased from the Matinecock in 1684. Eventually the Europeans managed to acquire the rest of the land of Queens in various ways, including bartering and purchase. Kissena Park was a region once controlled by the Matinecock, "Kissena" meant "cold place." The name of the large public housing development in South Flushing, "Pomonok," is an Indian word meaning "land of tribute" which referred to Long Island. The earliest known history of College Point begins with the Matinecocks. One of their main villages stood near where the College Point Nursing Homes are on 119th Street and Graham Court. It was in the 1930's when Captain Graham's house was being demolished that the Native American village became evident. Famed archeologists Carlyse Smith and Ralph Solecki supervised this excavation. A multitude of artifacts were unearthed at that time, which are now in the archives at the Poppenhusen Institute in College Point, and at Rochester Museum. Matinecock villages, comprised of wigwams, were built on high ground near water. They traveled upon the water in canoes made of dugout tree trunks. In Bayside shell heaps, the discarded remnants of wampum making (beads made from shells) grew up alongside their settlements. One such site was found on Fort Totten. Little Neck Bay's wealth of seafood, including the huge oysters that grew there then, sustained the Matinecock tribe. European settlers also turned their attention to the area, not only for the clams but for the harbor, which offered easy access to water traffic. One of the original Indian paths through Bayside that the Matinecock used connected with their other villages. Starting at the edge of Flushing Bay and continuing east past Manhasset. This basic path evolved into the main road once known as Broadway and is the modern day Northern Blvd. The British and Dutch soon had bartered and swindled, the Matinecock out of much of their ancestral lands, except for a small portion called Madnan's Neck possibly named for the shortened form of the Indian name for the area Menhaden-ock, "place of fish." In 1656 Thomas Hicks led a group to drive the last remaining Matinecock from Douglaston and Little Neck. The conflict was known as the Battle of Madnan's Neck (Little Neck) and took place at the current intersection of Northern Blvd and Marathon Pkwy. Much later, when Northern Boulevard was being widened in the 1930s, Matinecock graves were discovered there. They were moved and re-buried in the cemetery of Zion Episcopal Church where a stone marker announces, "Here rest the last of the Matinecock." The Matinecocks were a noble people who had lived in harmony with nature for over a thousand years on Long Island's north shore. They were willing to share the land with the settlers from Europe, but the settlers wanted it all. The simple ways of the Matinecock were no match for the power of the new settlers, and within a hundred years of the settlers' arrival the Matinecocks are nearly all gone. DISCLAIMER: No copyright infringement intended.I DO NOT OWN ANY OF THE FOOTAGE OR MUSIC USED IN THIS VIDEO. THEY ARE MADE FOR ENTERTAINMENT, NOT PROFIT.