# Tackapausha

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{{Short description|Algonquian chief}}
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'''Tackapausha''' – also spelled as '''Tackapousha''' – was a [Lenape](/source/Lenape) [sachem](/source/sachem), a successor of [Penhawitz](/source/Penhawitz) (his mother's brother, an important father-like figure in the Algonquian [matrilineal kinship](/source/Matrilineality) system). Tackapousha represented a broad coalition of [Munsee](/source/Munsee_language)-speaking peoples of western [Long Island](/source/Long_Island) in negotiations with Dutch and English settlers from as early as the 1640s to as late as the 1690s.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Grumet|first=Robert S.|title=First Manhattans: A History of the Indians of Greater New York|publisher=University of Oklahoma Press|year=2011|isbn=978-0-8061-4163-3|location=Norman, Oklahoma|pages=10–12|language=English}}</ref>

Over a period of more than fifty years, Tackapausha was involved in the negotiation of many land-use agreements and alliances between the indigenous people of western Long Island and the Dutch and English colonial authorities. In 1643, he and several other Long Island sachems signed an agreement with Englishmen from the [Stamford](/source/Stamford%2C_Connecticut) outpost of the [New Haven Colony](/source/New_Haven_Colony) allowing for the "purchase" of a town plot for the new settlement of [Hempstead](/source/Hempstead%2C_New_York) in territory claimed by the [Dutch West India Company](/source/Dutch_West_India_Company). In May 1645, after the murder of five of his people by Hempstead settlers and the murder of two more captured Indians by the Dutch, Tackapausha went to [New Amsterdam](/source/New_Amsterdam) to meet with [Willem Kieft](/source/Willem_Kieft) and make peace with the Dutch. At the time, Tackapausha said he was representing all the Indian communities of Long Island and he pledged on behalf of them all to provide warriors to help the Dutch defeat any Indians who opposed them.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Andrew|first=Lipman|title=The Saltwater Frontier: Indians and the Contest for the American Coast|publisher=Yale University Press|year=2015|isbn=978-0-300-22702-4|location=New Haven and London|pages=175–177|language=English}}</ref>

Tackapausha was the first person to sell land in the [Rockaway Peninsula](/source/Rockaway_Peninsula) to a person of [European](/source/European_ethnic_groups) background when he sold the present-day [Far Rockaway](/source/Far_Rockaway%2C_Queens) to an [Englishman](/source/Englishman) named [John Palmer](/source/John_Palmer_(colonial_administrator)) in 1685.

Tackapausha is the namesake of Tackapausha Museum and Preserve in [Seaford, New York](/source/Seaford%2C_New_York). It is an "84-acre sanctuary of oak forests, ponds, streams," established in 1938 by [Nassau County](/source/Nassau_County%2C_New_York).<ref>{{cite web |title=Tackapausha Museum and Preserve |url=https://www.nassaucountyny.gov/2951/Tackapausha-Museum-and-Preserve |department=Parks, Recreation & Museums |publisher=Nassau County |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250214031107/https://www.nassaucountyny.gov/2951/Tackapausha-Museum-and-Preserve |archive-date=February 14, 2025 |access-date=9 March 2025 }}</ref>

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