Tags: Ethnic Group.
The Shinnecock Indian Nation is a federally recognized tribe of historically Algonquian-speaking people based on Long Island New York. The tribe is headquartered in Suffolk County on the southeastern shore of Long Island. The tribe’s landbase is the Shinnecock Reservation within the geographic boundaries of the Town of Southampton. They are related to the historic Pequot and Narragansett peoples of southern New England.
