Canarse

Name

As was common practice early in the days of white European colonisation of North America, a people came to be associated with a place, with its name displacing theirs among the colonies and those associated with them, such as explorers, mapmakers, trading company superiors who sponsored many of the early settlements, and officials in the colonizers' mother country in Europe. This was the case of the "Canarsee" people, also known as Canarsie and Canarse, as well as Canarise, Canarisse, and Canarsii, whose name, to the extent they identified with one, is lost in history. They were also called the Canarse and Canarsie.