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Mahackemo (or Mahackamo) was chief of the Norwalke Indians, a small tribe of the
Siwanoy The Siwanoy () were an Indigenous American band of Wappinger people, who lived in Long Island Sound along the coasts of what are now The Bronx, Westchester County, New York, and Fairfield County, Connecticut. They were one of the western bands of ...
, who sold land to
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in 1640 (
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or 1641
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) which later became
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.


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History of Norwalk, Connecticut The history of Norwalk, Connecticut ranges from pre-contact cultures and Native Americans to the 21st century. Population Pre-Contact During an era when Native Americans had discovered the New World, Native Americans had unquestionably i ...


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