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The Wangunk or Wongunk are an Indigenous people from central Connecticut. [5] [3] They had three major settlements in the areas of the present-day towns of Portland, Middletown, and Wethersfield. They also used lands in other parts of what were later organized by English settlers as Middlesex and Hartford counties. [6]
They were not allowed to sell or abandon that land, and Native peoples from other tribes were not allowed to visit. [9] From around 1651 to 1669, Reverend Abraham Pierson, a Congregational minister, proselytized the Quinnipiac near Branford, Connecticut. [10] He translated Christian texts into the Quiripi language. [3]
A History of Connecticut's Golden Hill Paugussett Tribe. The History Press. ISBN 978-1-59629-296-3. Samuel Orcutt (1886). A History of the Old Town of Stratford and City of Bridgeport Connecticut, Volume 1. Fairfield County Historical Society. George Curtis Waldo (1917). History of Bridgeport and Vicinity, Volume 1. S. J. Clarke. ISBN 978-1-144 ...
The Potatuck were a Native American tribe in Connecticut. They were related to the Paugussett people, historically located during and prior to the colonial era in western Connecticut . They lived in what is now Newtown (in Fairfield County ), Woodbury (in Litchfield County ), and Southbury (in New Haven County ), and along the whole Housatonic ...
The Tunxis were a group of Quiripi speaking Connecticut Native Americans that is known to history mainly through their interactions with English settlers in New England. . Broadly speaking, their location makes them one of the Eastern Algonquian-speaking peoples of Northeastern North America, whose languages shared a commo
Representatives from Connecticut’s five sovereign tribal nations, the governor and other state leaders met in Hartford Wednesday to announce a historic collaboration between the Native American ...
Native American Placenames of the United States. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 080613576X. Campbell, Lyle (1997). American Indian Languages: The Historical Linguistics of Native America. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195094271
Pages in category "Native American tribes in Connecticut" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .