| Organization name | Montauk indians |
| Org type | Indian group |
| Bio notes | Also known as Montaukett, Metoac, Matouwac. An Algonquian-speaking people originally from the eastern end of Long Island, New York, and related to the Pequot of southern New England. Be aware that the name is sometimes mistakenly used as a blanket term for all Long Island Indian tribes, which are in actuality far from cultural and linguistic homogeneity. The Montauk were thoroughly integrated into the European economic sphere by 1750 (if not earlier), in which they worked as whalers, farmers, craftsmen, and perhaps most significantly, wampum producers (wampum was an important fur-trading currency at this time). The Mohegan Presbyterian preacher Samson Occum worked among them in the years leading up to Revolutionary War, after which some Montauk relocated to Oneida territory with the Mohegan, Pequot, and Narragansett tribes to found Brothertown in 1784. The Montauk intermarried with the various ethnic groups of Long Island, such as African slaves and White traders, which formed the basis of a unique 1910 court case denying their rights to sovereignty as a distinct people. |
| See also | Brothertown indians |
| Citations | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montaukett ; http://montaukett.org/?page_id=22 |
Minutes of the Committee on Indian Concern No 1