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Who First Lived In New York?

HISTORY. Native Americans came to the area now called New York about 5,000 years ago. Thousands of years later, their descendants included Native American tribes such as the Mohawk, Cayuga, Oneida, and Seneca. In 1624 the Dutch established a colony on what’s now Manhattan Island called New Amsterdam. Who inhabited New York first? The first …

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