The Pequot (/ ˈpiːkwɒt /) [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 …

Pequot, any member of a group of Algonquian -speaking North American Indians who lived in the Thames valley in what is now Connecticut, U.S. Their subsistence was based on the cultivation of corn (maize), hunting, and fishing. In the 1600s their population was …

The Mashantucket (Western) Pequot Tribal Nation is a federally recognized Indian tribe located at one of America’s oldest Indian reservations, Mashantucket, in Southeastern Connecticut.

Leaders of the re-established Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation searched for viable means of economic self-sufficiency, setting priorities for employment, health care, and housing for Tribal members.

Pequot War, war fought in 1636–37 by the Pequot people against a coalition of English settlers from the Massachusetts Bay, Connecticut, and Saybrook colonies and their Native American allies (including the Narragansett and Mohegan) that eliminated the Pequot as an impediment to English colonization of southern New England.

2018年5月14日 · The name Pequot (pronounced PEE-kwot) comes from an Algonquin word meaning “destroyers,” referring to the warlike nature of the group in early times. The Pequot call themselves “fox people.” In the early twenty-first century there were two Pequot tribes: the Mashantucket (Western Pequot) and Paucatuck (Eastern Pequot).

This tribe emerged from the tragic 1637 massacre at the principal Pequot fortified village on Long Island Sound at Mystic. Prior to European colonial incursion in the 1630s and 1640s, the region was home to approximately 26 villages. Learn more for a …

The Pequot War was an armed conflict that took place in 1636 and ended in 1638 in New England, between the Pequot tribe and an alliance of the colonists from the Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, and Saybrook colonies and their allies from the Narragansett and Mohegan tribes.

Multi-sensory dioramas and exhibits introduce visitors to the history of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribe and the natural and cultural history of the eastern woodlands.

2023年12月18日 · The Pequot War began in 1636 after the death of two English traders: Captain John Stone and John Oldham and lasted until 1638. Though there had been a conflict for years, the interference from the governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, Sir Henry Vane, ultimately led to a declaration of war.