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There are a number of Native American tribes located in present-day Connecticut. These include the Pequot tribe, the Nipmuc tribe, as well as the Munsee tribe.
The name Pequod comes from the Pequot tribe, a Native American tribe from Connecticut. The Pequod was a fictional whaling ship in Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick.
Peqout War APUSH
One tribe of Native Americans that was involved in conflicts with the Puritans was the Pequot tribe. The Pequot War took place in 1636-1638 in what is now Connecticut. The war resulted in the defeat of the Pequot tribe and the significant reduction of their population.
The state of Connecticut was named for the Connecticut River. The word Connecticut is an English version of an Algonquian word meaning "long tidal river".
Connecticut got its name from the Mohican/Algonquin Indian word "quonehtacut", which means "long tidal river."Many states were named after Indian names.Connecticut got its name from the Mohican Indian word "quonehtacut", which means "the place of the long tidal river."
This was the battle between the Massachusetts bay and plymoth colonies with native American allies against the Pequot tribe in 1636-1637.
There were several tribes living in Connecticut. The major ones were the Mohegans, Pequots (originally the same tribe until their split in the 1750's),the Narragansetts and Mohawks also were there since the bounderies that are now Connecticut are not the same as during the colonial times.
There were three colonies that settled in Connecticut that were combined under a royal charter in 1662. This unified Connecticut Colony was an English colony originally settled by the Puritans (River Colony) and combined the River Colony with the Saybrook and New Haven Colonies. The founders of the Connecticut Colony are considered to be Minister Thomas Hooker and Governor John Haynes.
The main resources of the Mohegan Tribe include revenue from their gaming and entertainment enterprises, as well as income from their various hospitality facilities. Additionally, the tribe receives income from their retail operations and cultural attractions, such as the Mohegan Sun resort and casino in Connecticut. The tribe also engages in sustainable agriculture and natural resource management to generate revenue.