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Connecticut – from some Eastern Algonquian language of southern New England (perhaps Mahican), meaning "at the long tidal river" (after the Connecticut River). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Settlements
Connecticut, the state, and river: (in several dialects) "place of the long river" or "by the long tidal stream" Aspetuck River (and town): (Paugussett) "at the high place" Cockenoe Island: (Montauk) from the name of a 17th-century native interpreter; Coginchaug River: (Wangunk) "place where fish are dried/cured"
Connecticut – from some Eastern Algonquian language of southern New England (perhaps Mahican), meaning "at the long tidal river" (after the Connecticut River). [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Campbell suggest an origin from the Mohegan meaning simply "long river".
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The Connecticut River is influenced by the tides as far north as Enfield Rapids in Windsor Locks, Connecticut, approximately 58 miles (93 km) north of the river's mouth. Two million residents live in the densely populated Hartford-Springfield region, which stretches roughly between the college towns of Amherst, Massachusetts, and Middletown ...
In Chatham, one was established for a man named Sawsean and his descendants. The third, 300 acres in size, was established for Sowheag, the sachem of Mattabesett, and the Native peoples of Mattabesett. [6] In a 1761 survey of indigenous peoples in Connecticut, local Native peoples still resided at "Mattabéeset (at Wongunck, opposite Middletown ...
The reversal has unsettled many in the southeastern Connecticut town, which has considered itself immune to controversies stirred by Native American mascots elsewhere because of its close ties to ...
Several of the states that derive their names from names used for Native peoples have retained the plural ending in "s": Arkansas, Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts, and Texas. One common naming pattern has been as follows: Native tribal group → River → Territory → State