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Causes of the Pequot War
…the Pequot attempted to subjugate other tribes throughout Connecticut and the islands offshore. By 1635, the Pequot extended their political and economic ties through a tributary confederacy using coercion, warfare,…
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Connecticut Declares War Against the Pequot – Today in History: May 1
…states, and our future Nation interacted with the Pequot and other Native tribes. Contributed by staff for the Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center’s Battlefields of the Pequot War project….
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Slavery and the Pequot War
…outposts. Some of the Pequot held in Connecticut and the other colonies managed to escape. As Major John Mason, an English settler and a central military figure in the Pequot…
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Pequot War
Pequot War (1636-1637) Though the major engagements of the Pequot War took place within a two-year span, the conflict had much earlier roots. After years of confrontations over land, trade,…
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Breaking the Myth of the Unmanaged Landscape
…a small bait-and-tackle operation, the Eastern Pequot reservation is undeveloped, but through the trees a mile northwest looms the Mashantucket Pequot Tribe’s museum and casino complex. Farther northwest is the…
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Video – Connecticut’s Cultural Treasures: Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center
YouTube – CPTV – Created by the Connecticut Public Broadcasting Network and the Department of Economic and Community Development….
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The Incident of the Stonington Schooner ‘Breakwater’: A View from Indian Country
…aged persons, widows, and fatherless children.” But over the past twenty years, through a deeper understanding of the hidden and nuanced histories of American Indians—Pequots, Mohegans, Narragansetts, Wampanoags, and Shinnecocks…
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Lion Gardiner Helps to Fortify Early Old Saybrook
…allies among the tribes the Pequot had subjugated. A series of escalating confrontations and retaliations ensued that culminated in what became known as the Pequot War among the English. It…
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Algonquin Man 1645
…active in terms of Native American affairs. For example, native peoples have continuously occupied the Mashantucket region for over 10,000 years. The Pequot tribe is one of the most prominent…
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New London’s Indian Mariners
…Western Niantic, Mashantucket Pequot, and Lantern Hill Pequot); the Narragansett reservation in Rhode Island; and the Montauk reservation in New York. Arguably, this consortium represents and anchors one of the…
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Connecticut Native American Arts
The five Indigenous tribes recognized by Connecticut state law include the Schaghticoke, Golden Hill Paugussett, Mohegan, Mashantucket Pequot, and Paucatuck Eastern Pequot, each with its own history and identity. The…
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The Story Trail of Voices
…the last fluent speaker of the Mohegan-Pequot dialect. Fidelia’s grandfather, Gerdon Wyyougs, was a Pequot. Along with Emma Baker, Fielding served as a teacher to future Mohegan Medicine Woman Gladys…
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Native Americans
…American-owned Indian museum in the US. The state-recognized sovereign nations in Connecticut are the Eastern Pequot, Golden Hill Paugussett, and Schaghticoke tribes with the Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan having federal…
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Timeline: Settlement of the Colony of Connecticut
…formed when the towns of Hartford, Windsor, and Wethersfield join together. 1637 The Connecticut Colony formally declares war on the Pequot. 1638 The New Haven Colony is established by John…
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North Stonington’s Randall House, Nothing Ordinary about It
…providing guests with a re-created colonial living and dining experience until selling their business in 1995 to the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation, which purchased it for a reported $1.4 million….
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…Understanding” (or “Compacts”) were signed by the Mohegans and Mashantucket Pequot Tribes with the State of Connecticut. In their accord, the Mohegan Tribe agreed to terminate their ancient land claim…
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A Public Responsibility: Conservation and Development in the 20th Century
…Connecticut, The Face of Connecticut Campaign, and the 1000 Friends promote regional planning and environmentally sensitive development. Other groups undertaking conservation work in the state include the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal…
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Exploring Early Connecticut Mapmaking
…of the territory of the Pequot tribe that had been conquered by an alliance of Englishmen, Mohegans, and Narragansetts in 1636. This map, probably drawn by a colonial official with…
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An Orderly & Decent Government: Searching for the Common Good, 1965-Now
…responded by appropriating over $10 billion for a massive ten-year repair program. Federal recognition of the Mashantucket Pequots as an independent tribal nation in 1984 soon changed the economy and…
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The Story of Connecticut’s Largest State Forest
…roots in Voluntown’s industrial past. When Europeans first arrived in the area that is now Pachaug State Forest, it constituted tribal lands of the Narragansett, Pequot, and Mohegan people. The…
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Connecticut’s Oldest English Settlement
…1631, a war between the River Indians of the Connecticut Valley and the Pequot of the Thames Valley sent the River Indian sachem, Wahginnacut, to the Massachusetts Bay colony to…
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Living Rituals: Mohegan Wigwam Festival
…in the house” or “Welcome.” Truly, this festival is an annual Mohegan “open house,” at which Mohegans greet ‘all people of the world” (referred to in the Mohegan-Pequot language as…
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Mighty, Mighty Hartford
…which showed every type of military equipment used by Connecticut soldiers from the Pequot War to the Spanish-American War. There was a water carnival of 300 decorated yachts on the…
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Surveying Connecticut’s Borders
…the lands within Connecticut’s charter (between the Mystic and Pawcatuck Rivers) as payment for assistance during the Pequot War. Lucky for us, Connecticut prevailed and kept that valuable piece of…
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The Connecticut River
…political power of the Pequot-Dutch trading alliance. Despite being offered incentives to establish a presence in the river valley, the English initially expressed little interest until September 26, 1633, when…
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Pre-Colonization and Settlement Up Through 1763
…destabilized relations between various tribes of indigenous peoples that helped bring about the Pequot War—a conflict that ushered in an era of greater militancy in European-Native American relations. In 1662,…
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…Pequots fled south to Fairfield where they were crushed in a second fierce battle. Settlement of Connecticut Towns, 1635-1761 Problems of settlement dominated the General Assembly’s agenda virtually from the…
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Groton
The New London County town of Groton sits between the Thames and Mystic Rivers on the eastern end of the state’s shoreline. Europeans settled this Pequot land in 1650, and,…
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Medicine Woman Gladys Tantaquidgeon and Mohegan Cultural Renewal
…history due to his collaboration with the English during the Pequot War. Despite the negative implications of an English alliance, Uncas was able to secure the safety of his people…
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The Rogerenes Leave Their Mark on Connecticut Society
…by the Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center. Patricia M. Schaefer is the author of A Useful Friend: A Companion to the Joshua Hempstead Diary, 1711-1758, winner of the 2008 Homer D….
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Eleazar Wheelock: Preacher, Dartmouth College Founder
…American, as his first student. Occom went on to become a well-known Presbyterian minister to the Pequot Indians. Encouraged by Occom’s success, Wheelock established Moor’s (More’s) Charity School in Lebanon…
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USS Confederacy: The Life and Service of Connecticut’s Continental Frigate
…present-day Mohegan-Pequot Bridge in Preston. The construction of the 153-foot vessel was an ambitious achievement for the local shipwrights and the vessel showed many distinctive design features including beautiful wood…
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Eugene O’Neill’s Connecticut Connections
…next to one another on Pequot Avenue. The family lived first in the smaller of the two and then for a longer period in the larger house called Monte Cristo…
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Ledyard
…community, with many of its residents commuting to Groton and New London to work. In 1992, the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation opened the Foxwoods Resort Casino in the northeastern section…
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Cornfield Point: Old Saybrook’s Forgotten Scenic Alcove
…significance to the Pequot War. Fewer state residents realize that another key historical location exists on the opposite end of the coastline just a short ride down the street. Cornfield…
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War and Defense
From the Pequot War of 1637, and its tragic consequences for indigenous peoples, to more recent armed conflicts overseas, Connecticut’s history is punctuated by the complex political, economic, and social…
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America’s Most Devastating Conflict: King Philip’s War
…seaside towns. Connecticut troops, together with members of the Pequot and Mohegan tribes who served as an auxiliary force with the Connecticut militia, played a prominent role in the Great…
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