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Raritan was the name given to the Native American bands of Lenape people then living in what is now northeastern New Jersey and Staten Island, New York by Europeans in the seventeenth century who colonized the region around what is now called the Raritan River and its bay, . It is generally believed that the name comes from one of the Lenape languages (among the languages in the Algonquian language group), though there are a variety of interpretations as to its meaning. It may be a derivation of ''Naraticong'' 〔 〕 meaning "river beyond the island", or ''Roaton'' or ''Raritanghe'', names of a group which had come from across the Hudson〔Munsee language. (2009, October 16). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 22:19, November 1, 2009, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Munsee_language&oldid=320237567〕 and displaced the previous population known as ''Sanhican''.〔http://www.bergencountyhistory.org/Pages/indians.html Indigenous Population:Between 1628 and 1640, the Sanhicans were driven away from the west shore of Raritan Bay by a band of Wisquaskecks, known as the Roaton or Raritanghe, who removed from their territory north of Manhattan across Staten Island and into the lower Raritan Valley. By July 1640, the Raritans were described as "a nation of savages who live where a little stream (Raritan River ) runs up about five leagues behind Staten Island." At a peace conference with the Dutch in 1649, Pennekeck, sachem of ''Achter Col'' (Newark Bay), "said the tribe called Raritanoos, formerly living at Wisquaskeck had no chief, therefore he spoke for them, who would also like to be our friends..." Their intrusion was apparently contested unsuccessfully by Sawanoos (Southern) Lenape and Sanhicans. Consequently, the Hackensacks were separated from other Sanhican communities. 〕 (who moved to farther into the interior).〔http://trentonhistory.org/His/colonial.htm〕 Alternatively, ''Raritan'' is a Dutch pronunciation of ''wawitan'' or ''rarachons'', meaning "forked river" or "stream overflows".〔Troeger, Virginia, B. and McEwen, Rbert, James ''Woodbridge'', Charlestown, SC: Acadia Publishing, 2002, p. 18〕 The Raritan had early contact with settlers in the colony of New Netherland. William Kieft, governor of New Netherland, planned an extermination campaign against them, on the pretext of pigs being stolen from a farm on present-day Staten Island. The attack against the American Indians, while not causing much damage, was a contributing event to the bands' allying in Kieft's War against the settlements of New Netherland.〔(A Tale of Tienhoven )〕 ==See also== *Burial Ridge *Hackensack *Wappinger *Canarsee *Navesink *Raritan Bayshore 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Raritan tribe」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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