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The Wangunk or Wongunk were an Indigenous people from central Connecticut. [2] They were a subdivision of the Wappinger people, a Munsee-speaking people. [4] The Wangunk settled along the Connecticut River. [4] They had three major settlements in the areas of the present-day towns of Portland, Middletown, and Wethersfield.
The Quinnipiac were a historical Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands. They lived in present-day New Haven County, Connecticut, along the Quinnipiac River. [2] Their primary village, also called Quinnipiac, was where New Haven, Connecticut is today. [3]
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 .
The Pequot (/ ˈ p iː k w ɒ t /) [2] are a Native American people of Connecticut.The modern Pequot are members of the federally recognized Mashantucket Pequot Tribe, four other state-recognized groups in Connecticut including the Eastern Pequot Tribal Nation, or the Brothertown Indians of Wisconsin. [3]
The Nipmuc or Nipmuck people are an Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands, who historically spoke an Eastern Algonquian language, probably the Loup language. [6] Their historic territory Nippenet, meaning 'the freshwater pond place', is in central Massachusetts and nearby parts of Connecticut and Rhode Island.
Connecticut, the state, and river: (in several dialects) "place of the long river" or "by the long tidal stream" Hammonassett Point: (Hammonassett) "place of sand bars"“where we dig holes in the ground,” Mohawk Mountain: eastern Iroquois tribe; Algonquian term for their western enemies – "wolves," "hungry animals," or "cannibals"
Lester Skeesuk, a Narraganset-Mohegan, in traditional regalia. The Mohegan are an Algonquian Native American tribe historically based in present-day Connecticut.Today the majority of the people are associated with the Mohegan Indian Tribe, a federally recognized tribe living on a reservation in the eastern upper Thames River valley of south-central Connecticut. [1]
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