New York , State, United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...central and western parts of the state, included the Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, and Seneca tribes, who joined c.1570 to form...present-day Manhattan island (purchased in 1626 from the Canarsie tribe for goods worth about 60 Dutch guilders) and at Fort Nassau...