The reason why they used Chief Takapausha is because of the legend of the angry powerful Indian chief that would kill all in his way, and bloody the enemy. That is why Takapausha was picked as the mascot, and the primary color is red. Schools often pick what is locally important as symbols. For example, a school in a tornado area will give themselves the nickname the "Tornados." This is why Takapausha was picked as the schools mascot.

According to the old local legend, the spirit would rise from the site of the Indian massacre and destroy all his enemies. The Amityville athletes picked him as their mascot to used his fighting spirit to destroy the competition. It gives "Team Spirit" a whole new meaning.

Note that the colors of Amityville is the same as used in the book and movies. Blood Red!

Indian Graveyards
There are numerous Indian burial grounds in and around Amityville. Although no Indian graves have been found on the present day yard of the famous Amityville house, the house and several nearby Indian graveyards were all owned by a member of the Ketcham family on a piece of land that took up the whole neighborhood.
 

The most important Indian burial site is at the corner of Merrick Rd and Cedar Shore Rd., 1.5 miles from the famous Amityville house. That was the only spot on Long Island where a large number of Indians were killed. Local people believed that "earth in that spot was remarkably different from the ground about it, being strongly tinged with a reddish cast, which the old people said was occasioned by the blood of the Indians." (A Man Hated and Hailed by Steve Wick, Newsday http://www.newsday.com/community/guide/lihistory/ny-history-hs306a,0,6174655.story?coll=ny-lihistory-navigation)
 It is from this old legend that the story of the angry Indian Chief (Sachem) came from. The chief of these Indians was Takapausha who hated the Dutch, but got along well with the English Puritans. After the Dutch were driven out the English Governor made sure he and his Massapequan tribe was justly compensated for their land.

At left is the colors from the original movie. At right is Chief Takapausha. He was Chief of the Massapequans that lived in Amityville. He is used as the symbol of Amityville.

When Ron DeFeo went wild and committed the murders, there were locals that thought of the local Indian spirit. DeFeo said he was driven by demons.

Poltergeist Movie - Family & House it is based on located near Amityville!

Amityville Insane Asylum: Drew Barrymore's Great-Grandfather died there.

Suicide Club in Amityville - Mass suicide and Murder

Bram Stoker who wrote "Dracula": His link to Amityville

Amityville General History

Al Capone in Amityville - Sinks into insanity.

http://www.massapequapost.com/News/2004/0401/Front_Page/021.html Warrior Banner

Police Car picture from: http://www.senatorfuschillo.com/press_archive_story.asp?id=9574 Lieutenant Donald Dobby and Mayor Imbert accept a $37,500 grant for a new police vehicle from Senator Fuschillo

Baby http://www.antonnews.com/massapequanobserver/2005/02/11/news/  FRIDAY February 11, 2005 Mass Held in Massapequa for Abandoned Babies   Baby Nicholas Hope is carried out of St. Rose of Lima Church by Amityville Village Police Officer David Smith and Sgt. Bryan Scott. Photo by Ed Cox

http://www.amityvillerecord.com/News/2005/0511/Front_Page/   Warrior Soccer

The angry Indian chief possessing Butch DeFeo in Amityville was from a curse. He said the house is located on the site of an ancient Montaukett Indian burial ground and that a chief.  Hans Holzer is a professor of paranormal psychology and an author. The torture of the Indians in the Amityville Horror. The Amityville Horror, Ron DeFeo, and George Lutz. Chief Rolling Thunder. The truth and history of the Indian graveyard and cemetery.

The house in New York had many stories told about it, but what is the truth? The murders on long island could very well have been a hoax. The house may be haunted. The murder was terrible. The dollhouse at 2 brunswick became a movie The auction and pictures of the dmv may of been a true story haunting haunting the horor and the basketball team had any difffernt Amityville pictures that are horrow of the house that lutz lived in. Plenty of Amityville horror photos and useful information about the Dominicans and dmv and the history of the village and house. Father Pecoraro the priest was called Father Mancusco in the movie. The haunting of the horrible house. Home of horro. Amityville Real Estate. The evil Reverand Jeremiah Ketcham was very significant. Reverand Jeremiah Ketchum was an the bad guy in the film. City Confidential and info on Kaplan, with details on the Seventh Victim. George Lutz said the house was scary and creepy. The murder was spooky in Long Island. Really freaky. The biography of Butch DeFeo. Amityville photos and pictures. There was a possession of the son at the Horror House. He killed his whole family. George Lutz went insane. John Ketchum and accusations of being a witch.

The Warrens investigated. Images of the monster and the true story of the horrors and the tale of the house. Tales and stories of the supernatural and Jodie the Pig, and other monsters.

Amityville School District football team. Scores and game schedules. Amityville High School sports. Football and basketball. The village history. The historical society.

Long Island Indian history. The Sachem Wyandanch and his daughter Heather Flower. The princess legend of Lake Ronkonkoma. Native American legends of New York. Suffolk County Reservations. The Poospatuck and the Shinnecock nation. The 13 tribes. The history of the Algonquin peoples. The Montauk Indians and the story of the pyramids at Camp Hero. Lots of folklore. Ghosts, spirits and haunting. The religion of the native peoples. Navajo legends. Music, myths and storytelling. Language, culture and artifacts. Pictures and lots of old photos. Pics from the 19th century. Graphics and recipes. The holocaust of the first Americans. Tribal website. The tribe's chant. Books on the subject. Information on tribes. Americain ancient people. The mascot debate and land rights. Their drunkenness. Alcohol and alcoholism. Peyote ceremonies and religious beliefs. Legislation and bulletin board. The conflict, wars, and identity in regard to racism. The sundance and the thunderbird of the Apaches in the southwest. The creation story is interesting.  Long Island, NY history and Wyandanch.  Problems of tribalism. Indian Princess and Lake Ronkonkoma.

Music and art
Main article: Native American music

Mystic River Singers performing at a powwow in 1998Native American music is almost entirely monophonic, but there are notable exceptions. Traditional Native American music often includes drumming and/or the playing of rattles or other percussion instruments but little other instrumentation. Flutes and whistles made of wood, cane, or bone are also played, generally by individuals, but in former times also by large ensembles (as noted by Spanish conquistador de Soto). The tuning of these flutes is not precise and depends on the length of the wood used and the hand span of the intended player, but the finger holes are most often around a whole step apart and, at least in Northern California, a flute was not used if it turned out to have an interval close to a half step.

Performers with Native American parentage have occasionally appeared in American popular music, most notably Shania Twain (ethnically European, but raised by a First Nations adoptive father), Buffy Sainte-Marie, Robbie Robertson, Rita Coolidge, Wayne Newton, and Redbone (band). Some, such as John Trudell have used music to comment on life in Native America, and others, such as R. Carlos Nakai integrate traditional sounds with modern sounds in instrumental recordings. A variety of small and medium-sized recording companies offer an abundance of recent music by Native American performers young and old, ranging from pow-wow drum music to hard-driving rock-and-roll and rap.

The most widely practiced public musical form among Native Americans in the United States is that of the pow-wow. At pow-wows, such as the annual Gathering of Nations in Albuquerque, New Mexico, members of drum groups sit in a circle around a large drum. Drum groups play in unison while they sing in a native language and dancers in colorful regalia dance clockwise around the drum groups in the center. Familiar pow-wow songs include honor songs, intertribal songs, crow-hops, sneak-up songs, grass-dances, two-steps, welcome songs, going-home songs, and war songs. Most indigenous communities in the United States also maintain traditional songs and ceremonies, some of which are shared and practiced exclusively within the community. [28]

Native American art comprises a major category in the world art collection. Native American contributions include pottery, paintings, jewelry, weavings, sculptures, basketry, and carvings.


Hopi man weaving on traditional loomArtists have at times misrepresented themselves as having native parentage, most notably Johnny Cash, who traced his heritage to Scottish ancestors and admitted he fabricated a story that he was one-quarter Cherokee. The integrity of certain Native American artworks is now protected by an act of Congress that prohibits representation of art as Native American when it is not the product of an enrolled Native American artist.