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 …

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. As pioneers of the Indian gaming casino industry, the history of the Mashantucket Pequot people reveals one of America’s greatest come-back stories.

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.

Nov 20, 2012 · Summary and Definition: The Pequot people were a fierce and powerful tribe of hunter-gathers and fishers who inhabited the southeastern coast of Connecticut from the Niantic river to Rhode Island, living along the Pequot (now Thames) and Mystic Rivers.

Sep 16, 2022 · The Pequot War was the first time English colonists fought a war against Indian tribes in New England. The war started in 1634 when trader John Stone was killed by Western Niantic Indians. The war officially ended when the Treaty …

May 14, 2018 · 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).

Mar 27, 2019 · Until the “Pequot War” of 1636-37, military conflicts in North America between Native Americans and arriving Europeans had been primarily local, meant to settle individ­ual grievances or punish specific cases of kidnapping, murder, or theft.

Dec 18, 2023 · On May 1, 1637, Connecticut Colony declared war on the Pequots, already one year into battles. The declaration threatened the Pequot’s claim to their land in Southeastern Connecticut. The Pequot War began in 1636 after the death of two English traders: Captain John Stone and John Oldham and lasted until 1638.

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.