…The Wyantenock Indian town located in the Housatonic River valley near New Milford was a mixed community made up of Wampano-speaking people from the area, Wappinger Indian people from New York, Mahican-speakers living farther to the northwest, and…

…The Kitchawanc tribe, part of the Wappinger Confederacy of the Algonquin Nation, was native to the area and was responsible for several of the place names known in Croton-on-Hudson today. The Kitchawanc called the marsh separating Croton Point…