Hundreds of American Indians served as mariners, including on the Stonington schooner ‘Breakwater,’ which survived capture in the Falkland Islands.
ReadMohegan history and religion have been preserved by many different voices in many different families through Mohegan Oral Tradition. However, since before the American Revolution, four women in particular have passed on Mohegan stories.
ReadAn Ivy league-educated anthropologist, Mohegan Medicine Woman Gladys Tantaquidgeon not…
ReadEvidence of early Native land use is etched into the landscape and preserved in oral tradition as well as the historical and archaeological records. This is in direct contradiction to a persistent myth of colonialism: that European settlers encountered a virgin landscape free of human intervention and ripe for development.
ReadConnecticut has experienced thousands of earthquakes since European settled the area. The most active site for seismic activity is the village of Moodus in East Haddam.
ReadThis Mohegan Chief is remembered for successfully guiding the Tribe through the final stages of Federal Recognition, which it obtained in 1994.
ReadIn an era of dispossession and diminishing autonomy on land, Native American mariners learned to use Anglo-American structures and institutions to establish a degree of power and personal freedom for themselves.
ReadAmy Johnson was a Mohegan woman who resisted living the life European settlers wanted her to live.
ReadBoth successes and failures in the execution of debate and diplomacy lay behind some of the most monumental events in Connecticut’s history.
ReadEvery nation has a spirit. The Mohegan Spirit moves and breathes within the very rocks and trees of the Mohegan Homeland in Uncasville, Connecticut.
ReadAlbert Afraid-of-Hawk was born Cetan Kokipa on the Great Sioux…
ReadIsaac Glasko was a blacksmith of mixed African American and Native American descent who challenged 19th-century voting rights in Connecticut.
ReadThe Quinnipiac still live in Connecticut and across the country, but the community is not presently one of Connecticut’s recognized tribes, nor is it federally acknowledged.
ReadPachaug State Forest is the largest state forest in Connecticut….
ReadIn 1635, the governor of the Saybrook colony hired engineer…
ReadEleazar Wheelock was a notable eighteenth-century farmer, Congregational minister, revivalist, educator, and founder of Dartmouth College.
ReadIndian Hill Cemetery’s founders promoted their property as a place to find peace, both with the natural environment and with the area’s indigenous past.
ReadThe Wigwam festival is a modern version of the ancient Mohegan Thanksgiving for the Corn Harvest, or Green Corn Festival.
ReadThe ramifications of this bloody conflict echoed across the centuries.
ReadOn May 1, 1637, Connecticut Colony declared war against the…
ReadThe remarkable resilience of Connecticut’s native cultures can be seen in the tribes’ social networks, political governance, commitment to educating others about native history, and their ongoing work to sustain their traditions.
ReadConnecticut troops sustained demoralizing losses before a reinvigorated British military turned the tide of the French and Indian War.
ReadA Mohegan and founding member of a pantribal group of Christian Indians, Occum sought to preserve Native autonomy by living apart from European communities.
ReadIn a wooded area of Barkhamsted near Ragged Mountain lie…
Read“We are no longer the little old tribe that lives upon the hill. We are now the Nation that lives upon the hill.”
ReadConnecticut’s Cultural Treasures is a series of 50 five-minute film vignettes that profiles a variety of the state’s most notable cultural resources
ReadIn 1633, Windsor became Connecticut’s first English settlement. This was…
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