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The original inhabitants of this land were the Mohican, Munsee and Lenape people.[Stockbridge-Munsee Community 1][1] These Native American tribes played a fundamental role in the area's economy as they traded beaver skin with European settlers.[2] By the 18th century, the Munsee, Mohican, and Lenape people were Also add the Munsee people (Starna 105)
Unlike European settlers, the Lenape people believed that Kishelëmukòng had created the earth for all people and creatures, meaning that land could not be appropriated by any individual or despoiled for personal profit. In this way, this group of people did not understand the process of selling land but believed they would receive continued access to it to hint, fish, forage, or even plant crops.[3] did not believe in land ownership
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- ^ Levine, David. "Discover The Hudson Valley's Tribal History". Hudson Valley. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
- ^ Romney, Susan Shaw (2014). New Netherlands Connections: Intimate Networks and Atlantic Ties in Seventeenth-Century America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. p. 12, 124.
- ^ Kraft, Herbert C. (1988). The Lenape. New Jersey: New Jersey Historical Society. p. 221. ISBN 0-911020-14-4.