Professor Jennifer Anderson of Stony Brook University joins HNY Director of Grants, Joe Murphy, to discuss the Unkechaug people of Long Island and their struggle over generations to maintain ownership of their ancestral homelands in present-day Eastern Long Island.
Throughout the conversation, Anderson shares new research on the estate of Declaration of Independence-signee William Floyd, who sought to exploit the Unkechaugs for labor and dispossess them of their land through a variety of nefarious legal schemes. Until recently, scholarship on the NPS-maintained estate in Mastic has tended to focus on Floyd and his political career as a so-called Founding Father. Anderson is part of a cohort working to reframe the narrative of the site focus on the Unkechaugs as well as the free and enslaved laborers whose toils brought Floyd great prosperity.
The program is part of HNY's Land, Liberty, & Loss: Echoes of the American Revolution series, which explores our nation’s founding and how its history-or misapprehensions of that history-often serves as an obstacle to full democratic and civic flourishing. Programming offers a reconsideration of how the American Revolution connects to or disrupts indigenous histories, our use of natural resources, political development, and national expansion.
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