Unalachtigo (properly W'nalātchtko,
people who live near the ocean,' because of their proximity to Delaware
Bay. Brinton). The southernmost of the three main divisions of the
Delaware, occupying the west bank of Delaware river, in Delaware, and
probably also the east bank, in New Jersey, since many of the Delaware
were forced to cross the river to escape the inroads of the Conestoga.
Their totem was the turkey, whence they have been known as the Turkey
tribe of the Delaware.
According to Brinton the totem has no reference
to gentes, but was merely the emblem of a geographic division. Their
principal seat was Chikohoki, on the site of Burlington, N. J.
Poosepatuck.
Also called Uncachogee. One of the 13 tribes of Long Island, N. Y.,
probably subordinate to the Montauk. They occupied the south shore from
Patchogue Island to the Shinnecock country. In 1666 a reservation was
ceded to their sachem, Tobaccus, on Forge river, a short distance above
the town of Mastic, where a few mixed-bloods still survive, with no
knowledge of their language or customs, on a state reservation of 50
acres. Elizabeth Joe, their woman sachem and last chief, died in 1832. In
they numbered 10 families, governed by 3 trustees. See Patchoag.
