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The Pequot people today are descended from the tribe that was the dominant power in southeastern New England in the 1600s. That power declined sharply following the Pequot War in 1637, and many surviving Pequots were assigned to the supervision of the Mohegan tribe in the west and Narragansett people in the eastern part of the region. [3]
The 1130-member Eastern Pequot Tribal Nation has a reservation called "Lantern Hill." The Eastern Pequot Tribal Nation is recognized by the state of Connecticut . The 800+ Mashantucket Pequot or Western Pequot gained federal recognition in 1983 and have a reservation in Ledyard .
Jun. 2—NORTH STONINGTON — Members of the Eastern Pequot Tribe will keep a ceremonial fire burning on the tribe's reservation land until sunset Friday to honor the memory of Chief Hockeo, Roy ...
Jul. 24—NORTH STONINGTON — Ron "Wolf" Jackson still shakes his head when he recalls the way the word came down. "It was when and how they did it ― on Columbus Day ― that made it worse," he ...
The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation is a federally recognized American Indian tribe in the state of Connecticut.They are descended from the Pequot people, an Algonquian-language tribe that dominated the southern New England coastal areas, and they own and operate Foxwoods Resort Casino within their reservation in Ledyard, Connecticut.
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 ...
Foxwoods Resort Casino. The Connecticut Indian Land Claims Settlement was an Indian Land Claims Settlement passed by the United States Congress in 1983. [1] The settlement act ended a lawsuit by the Mashantucket Pequot Tribe to recover 800 acres of their 1666 reservation in Ledyard, Connecticut.
Hayward's grandmother Elizabeth George died in May 1973. She was the last member of the Pequot Indian tribe, and she still lived on the 214-acre (87 ha) Pequot Indian reservation. She was the only person living on the reservation, so the land passed back to the State of Connecticut when she died.