Major bands of Pequot in eastern Long Island were the Montaukett and Shinnecock. The Native Americans to the east spoke a different Algonquian language and were related to the Pequot people of Connecticut and southern New England, another in the large Algonquian languages family of tribes in coastal areas along the Atlantic Ocean. The bands were identified by names of the geographic areas they occupied.
The Greater Massapequa area, which includes the nearby CDPs of North Massapequa and East Massapequa, as well as the Incorporated Village of Massapequa Park, has a combined population of over 75,000.Ī 19th-century writer identified Massapequa as one of the " 13 tribes of Long Island," but additional research has shown that they were a band of Lenape, the Algonquian-speaking people who occupied the western part of the island at the time of European encounter. The population of the CDP was 21,685 at the time of the 2010 census. It is considered the anchor community of the Greater Massapequa area. Massapequa ( / ˌ m æ s ə ˈ p iː k w ə/, mass-ə- PEEK-wə) is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the Town of Oyster Bay in Nassau County, on the South Shore of Long Island, in New York, United States.
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