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Map of the Golden Hill Paugussett Indian Nation resrvation. Around 1857 William Sherman (1825–1886), a whaler by trade withdrew from the Liberia community and settled in the village of Nichols Farms in the Town of Trumbull, Connecticut, the site of the 1841-54 Turkey Meadows reservation. In 1875, he purchased a quarter-acre plot of land that ...
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Natchitoches Tribe of Louisiana, Campti, LA [38] Recognized by the State of Louisiana in 2017 Regular Session, HR227. Pointe-au-Chien Tribe, [9] also Pointe-au-Chien Indian Tribe, Montegut, LA. [38] Separated from United Houma Nation, Inc. Letter of Intent to Petition 7/22/1996. [9] [23] Recognized by the State of Louisiana in 2004. [39] United ...
The state of Louisiana is home to four federally recognized Native American tribes, the Chitimacha, the Coushatta, the Jena Band of Choctaw Indians, and the Tunica-Biloxi. [ 1 ] References
The Golden Hill Paugussett Indian Nation is a Connecticut state-recognized tribe, descendants of the Paugussett (also Paugusset) Nation of Native Americans, who occupied much of western Connecticut prior to the arrival of Europeans. [2] [3] While state-recognized, they have been denied federal recognition. [4]
Golden Hill Paugussett Indian Nation is a small tribe with tiny Connecticut reservations in both Trumbull and Colchester. It has been an officially recognized tribe by the state of Connecticut for approximately 300 years. [1] However, the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs has repeatedly refused the tribe's request for federal recognition.
Additionally, Pequot descendants are enrolled in the federally recognized Mohegan Tribe, as well as the Schaghticoke Tribal Nation and Golden Hill Paugussett Indian Nation of Connecticut, and the Brothertown Indians of Wisconsin, which also have degrees of state recognition. [3]
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