Wappinger
The first contact with Europeans was in 1609. Henry Hudson reached the area with his Half Boot ship. One officer of the Half Boot wrote about the Wappinger. He said the Wappinger brought goods to these first Europeans. He also said they were well dressed and wore furs and skins. The colonist David Pieterz De Vries wrote that the Wappinger had facial paints, wore animal skins and had long black hair.