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|poptime=[[1620]]: '''6,000'''. (est.)<br /> |
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[[1637]]: '''3,000'''. (est.)<br /> |
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[[1910]]: '''66'''.<br /> |
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[[2000]]: '''1,000–2,000''' (est.)<br /> |
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|popplace=[[Eastern Pequot Tribal Nation]], Lantern Hill, North Stonington Connecticut: '''1130'''<br /> |
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[[Mashantucket Pequots|Mashantuckett]] or [[Mashantucket Pequots|Western Pequot]], [[Ledyard, Connecticut]]: '''350''' |
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|langs= Historically, '''Pequot''', a dialect of ''Mohegan-Pequot'' (an [[Algonquian]] language), now [[English language|English]] |
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The '''Pequot''' are a tribal nation of [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]]s who, in the 17th century, inhabited much of what is now [[Connecticut]]. The [[Pequot War]] and [[Mystic massacre]] eliminated the Pequot as a viable socio-political entity in southern [[New England]]. |
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Today, there are two independent Pequot tribal nations in [[Connecticut]]-- the [[Mashantucket Pequots|Mashantucket Pequot]] and the [[Eastern Pequot Tribal Nation]] (a.k.a. [[Eastern Pequot Tribal Nation|Paucatuck Pequot]]). |
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See ''Main articles: |
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*''[[Mashantucket Pequots|Mashantucket Pequot]] |
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*''[[Eastern Pequot Tribal Nation]]. |
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===Etymology of "Pequot"=== |
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''Pequot'' is an [[Algonquian]] word, the meaning of which is in dispute among Algonquian language specialists. Much of the scholarship pertaining to the Pequot claims that the name comes from "Paquatauoq," meaning, "the destroyer of the land and the city to become one is to join one,uthority on Algonquian languages. However, Frank Speck, a leading specialist of Pequot-Mohegan had doubts, and believed that another term the translation of which referred to the shallowness of a body of water seemed much more plausible.<ref>Frank Speck, "Native Tribes and Dialects of Connecticut: A Mohegan-Pequot Diary," ''Annual Reports of the U.S. Bureau of Ethnology'' 43 (1928): 218.</ref> |
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===The Question of Origins=== |
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The Pequot and the [[Mohegan]] were at one time a single socio-political entity. Anthropologists and historians contend that sometime before contact with the English, the Pequot were split into the two warring groups.<ref>See Carrol Alton Means, "Mohegan-Pequot Relationships, as Indicated by the Events Leading to the Pequot Massacre of 1637 and Subsequent Claims in the Mohegan Land Controversy," ''Archaeological Society of Connecticut Bulletin'' 21 (2947): 26-33.</ref> |
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Debate still exists as to whether the Pequot migrated toward what is now central and eastern [[Connecticut]] sometime around 1500, from the upper [[Hudson River]] Valley. The theory of Pequot migration to the [[Connecticut River]] Valley can be traced to Rev. William Hubbard who, in 1677, claimed that the Pequot, rather than originating in the region, had invaded it sometime before the establishment of [[Plymouth Colony]]. In the aftermath of [[King Philip's War]], Hubbard had sought in his ''Narrative of the Troubles with the Indians in New-England'', to explain the unmitigated ferocity with which [[New England]]'s [[Native Americans in the United States|Native]] peoples responded to the English. Seeking answers not in [[Connecticut Colony|Connecticut]] and [[Massachusetts Bay Colony|Massachusetts Bay]] Colony's own failed diplomacy and the colonial rapacity for [[Native Americans in the United States|Native]] lands, [[Puritan]] divines such as Hubbard may have projected their own position and behavior onto the Pequot by defining the Pequot as "foreigners" to the region-- invaders not from another shore, but "from the interior of the continent" who "by force seized upon one of the googliest places near the sea, and became a Terror to all their Neighbors." <ref>William Hubbard, ''The History of the Indian Wars in New England'' 2 vols. (Boston: Samuel G. Drake, 1845), vol. 2, pp. 6-7.</ref> |
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Much of the archaeological, linguistic, and documentary evidence now available clearly reveals that the Pequot were not invaders to the [[Connecticut River]] Valley; that they were in fact indigenous to it.<ref>For archaeological investigations disproving Hubbard's theory of origins, see Irving Rouse, "Ceramic Traditions and Sequences in Connecticut," ''Archaeological Society of Connecticut Bulletin'' 21 (1947): 25; Kevin McBride, "Prehistory of the Lower Connecticut Valley" (Ph.D. diss., University of Connecticut, 1984), pp. 126-28, 199-269; and the overall evidence on the question of Pequot origins in Means, "Mohegan-Pequot Relationships," 26-33. For historical research, refer to Alfred A. Cave, "The Pequot Invasion of Southern New England: A Reassessment of the Evidence," ''New England Quarterly'' 62 (1989): 27-44; and for linguistic research, see Truman D. Michelson, "Notes on Algonquian Language," ''International Journal of American Linguistics'' 1 (1917): 56-57.</ref> Certainly, contemporaneous to the establishment of [[Plymouth Colony|Plymouth]] and [[Massachusetts Bay]] colonies, the Pequot had already assumed a position of political, military, and economic dominance in what is now central and eastern [[Connecticut]]. Occupying the coastal area between the Niantic tribe of the Niantic River of present-day [[Connecticut]] and the Wecapaug River and Narrangansetts in what is now western [[Rhode Island]], the Pequot numbered some 16,000 persons in the most densely inhabited portion of southern [[New England]].<ref>Dean R. Snow and Kim M. Lamphear, "European Contact and Indian Depopulation in the Northeast: The Timing of the First Epidemics," ''Ethnohistory'' 35 (1988): 16-38.</ref> |
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The [[smallpox]] epidemic of 1616-19, which killed roughly 90% of the [[Native Americans in the United States|Native]] inhabitants of the eastern coast of present-day [[New England]], failed to reach the Pequot, or the [[Niantic (tribe)|Niantic]] and [[Narragansett (tribe)|Narragansett]]. But a subsequent epidemic in 1633 devastated the entirety of the region's [[Native Americans in the United States|Native]] population. Historians estimate that the Pequot suffered the loss of 80% of their entire population. At the outbreak of the [[Pequot War]] then, the Pequot may have numbered only about 3,000.<ref>Refer to Shelburne F. Cook, "The Significance of Disease in the Extinction of the New England Indians," ''Human Biology'' 45 (1973): 485-508; and Arthur E. Speiro and Bruce D. Spiess, "New England Pandemic of 1616-1622: Cause and Archaeological Implication," ''Man in the Northeast'' 35 (1987): 71-83.</ref> |
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===The Pequot War=== |
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''Main article:'' [[Pequot War]] |
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In 1637, long-standing tensions between the [[Puritans|Puritan]] [[English people|English]] of [[Connecticut Colony|Connecticut]] and [[Massachusetts Bay Colony|Massachusetts Bay]] colonies and the Pequot escalated into open warfare. The [[Mohegan]] and the [[Narragansett (tribe)|Narragansett]] sided with the English. Perhaps 1,500 Pequot were killed in battles or hunted down. Others were captured and distributed as slaves or household servants. A few escaped to be absorbed by the [[Mohawk nation|Mohawk]] or the [[Niantic (tribe)|Niantic]] on [[Long Island]]. Eventually, some would try to return to their traditional lands, while family groups of "friendly" Pequots stayed. Of those enslaved, most were awarded to the allied tribes, but many were also sold to plantations in the [[West Indies]].<ref>Refer to Lion Gardiner, "Relation of the Pequot Warres" in ''History of the Pequot War: The Contemporary Accounts of Mason, Underhill, Vincent, and Gardiner'' (Cleveland, 1897), p. 138; Ethel Boissevain, "Whatever Became of the New England Indians Shipped to Bermuda to be Sold as Slaves," ''Man in the Northwest'' 11 (Spring 1981), pp. 103-114; and Karen O. Kupperman, ''Providence Island, 1630-1641: The Other Puritan Colony (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993), p. 172.</ref> The [[Mohegan]] in particular treated their Pequot hostages so severely that colonial officials of [[Connecticut Colony]] eventually removed them. Two reservations were established by [[1683]]. While both of their land bases were exceedingly reduced by what eventually became the state of [[Connecticut]], they continue to exist to the present. |
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===Modern History=== |
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By the [[1910]] census, the Pequot population was enumerated at a low of 66.<ref>"Thirteenth Census of the United States taken in the year 1910" ''United States Bureau of the Census'', |
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(Washington, D.C. : Government Printing Office, 1912-1914).</ref> In terms of population, the Pequot reached their nadir several decades later. Pequot numbers grew appreciably--the Mashantucket Pequot especially--during the 1970s and 1980s when [[Mashantucket Pequots|Mashantucket Pequot]] Chairman, [[Richard A. Hayward]] was able to enjoin Pequots to return to their tribal homeland by implementing the push to Federal recognition and sound economic development.<ref>See Laurence M. Hauptman and James Wherry, eds. ''The Pequots in Southern New England: The Fall and Rise of an Indian Nation'' (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1990); Wayne J. Stein, "Gaming: The Apex of a Long Struggle," ''Wicazo Sa Review'', vol. 13, No. 1. (Spring, 1998), pp. 73-91; and Jace Weaver's review of Jeff Benedict's vitriolic polemic, "Without Reservation," ''Wicazo Sa Review'', vol. 17, no. 2 (Autumn, 2002), pp. 210-213.</ref> |
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In 1976, with the assistance of the Native American Rights Fund and the Indian Rights Association, the Pequot filed suit against neighboring landowners to recover land that had been illegally sold by the State of [[Connecticut]] in 1856. After seven years the Pequot and landowners reached a settlement. The former landowners agreed that the 1856 sale was illegal, and joined the Pequot in seeking the [[Connecticut]] state government's support. The Connecticut Legislature responded by unanimously passing legislation to petition the federal government to grant tribal recognition to the [[Mashantucket Pequots|Mashantucket Pequot]]. The ''[[Mashantucket Pequots|Mashantucket Pequot]] Indian Land Claims Settlement Act'' was enacted by the [[U.S. Congress]] and signed by President [[Ronald Reagan]] on Oct. 18, 1983.<ref>See Reagan's initial response to the proposed act in "Message to the Senate Returning Without Approval the Mashantucket Pequot Indian Claims Settlement Bill," April 5, 1983, http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1983/40583d.htm.</ref> This settlement granted the [[Mashantucket Pequots|Mashantucket Pequot]] federal recognition, enabling them to repurchase and place in trust the land covered in the Settlement Act.<ref>''Mashantucket Pequot Indian Claims Settlement Act'' (1983), S. 366.</ref> |
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Currently, 1,250 acres comprise the [[Mashantucket Pequots|Mashantucket Pequot]] Nation land base. As the [[Mashantucket Pequots|Mashantucket Pequot]] Tribal Nation settled its land claims, it also engaged in several entrepreneurial enterprises in order to become economically viable. These including the sale of fire wood, harvesting maple syrup, and the growing of garden vegetables. The [[Mashantucket Pequots|Mashantucket Pequot]] also tried their hand at a swine project and the opening of a hydroponic greenhouse. The [[Mashantucket Pequots|Mashantucket Pequot]] also purchased and operated a restaurant, and established a sand and gravel business. In 1986, they opened a bingo operation, followed, in 1992, by the establishment of the first phase of [[Foxwoods Resort Casino]]. |
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Revenues from [[Foxwoods Resort Casino|Foxwoods]] provided sufficient revenue to the [[Mashantucket Pequots|Mashantucket Pequot]] to create a cultural museum. The ceremonial groundbreaking for the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center took place on Oct. 20, 1993. This date marked the 10th anniversary of federal recognition of the [[Mashantucket Pequots|Mashantucket Pequot]] Nation. The new facility, opened on August 11, 1998, is located on the [[Mashantucket Pequots|Mashantucket Pequot]] Reservation, where many members of the [[Mashantucket Pequots|Mashantucket Pequot]] Nation continue to live. It is one of the oldest, continuously occupied [[Native Americans in the United States|Indian]] reservations in [[North America]]. |
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==Geography== |
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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]] and the [[United States]] Federal government. |
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The 350 [[Mashantucket Pequots|Mashantucket Pequot]] or [[Mashantucket Pequots|Western Pequot]] gained federal recognition in [[1983]] and have a reservation in [[Ledyard, Connecticut|Ledyard]]. |
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Nearly all individuals who are identified as Pequot live in the two above-named communities. |
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==Language== |
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Historically, the '''Pequot''' spoke a dialect of Mohegan-Pequot, an [[Algonquian]] language. After the [[Treaty of Hartford]] concluded the [[Pequot War]], speaking the language became a capital offense, and it became largely extinct. The Pequot from both the [[Eastern Pequot Tribal Nation]] and [[Mashantucket Pequots|Mashantucket Pequot]] currently speak [[English language|English]] as their primary language. |
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The [[Mashantucket Pequots|Mashantucket Pequot]] are currently undertaking aggressive efforts to revive the language through careful analysis of historical documents containing Pequot words and comparison with extant closely related languages. So far over 1,000 words have been reclaimed, though that is a small fraction of what would be necessary for a functional language. The [[Mashantucket Pequots|Mashantucket Pequot]] have begun offering [http://www.norwichbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060223/NEWS01/602230306/1002 ''language classes''] with the help of the Mashpee [[Wampanoag]] who recently initiated the [http://web.mit.edu/norvin/www/wopanaak.html ''Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project'']. The southern New England Native communities who are participants in the ''Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project'' are Mashpee Wampanoag, Aquinnah Wampanoag, Herring Pond Wampanoag, and |
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most recently, [[Mashantucket Pequots|Mashantucket Pequot]]. |
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==Notes== |
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* The ''[[Pequod (Moby-Dick)|Pequod]]'', the fictional 19th century [[Nantucket]] [[whaling]] ship that appears in the [[1851]] novel ''[[Moby-Dick]]'' by American author [[Herman Melville]], is ostensibly named after the Pequot tribe. |
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==References== |
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==Bibliography== |
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===Primary Sources=== |
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*Gardiner, Lion. ''Leift Lion Gardener his Relation of the Pequot Warres'' (Boston: [First Printing] Massachusetts Historical Society Collections, 1833). |
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*Hubbard, William. ''The History of the Indian Wars in New England'' 2 vols. (Boston: Samuel G. Drake, 1845). |
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*Johnson, Edward. ''Wonder-Working Providence of Sion's Saviour in New England by Captain Edward Johnson of Woburn, Massachusetts Bay. With an historical introduction and an index by William Frederick Poole'' (Andover, MA: W. F. Draper, [London: 1654] 1867. |
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*Mason, John. ''A Brief History of the Pequot War: Especially of the Memorable taking of their Fort at Mistick in Connecticut in 1637/Written by Major John Mason, a principal actor therein, as then chief captain and commander of Connecticut forces; With an introduction and some explanatory notes by the Reverend Mr. Thomas Prince'' (Boston: Printed & sold by. S. Kneeland & T. Green in Queen Street, 1736). |
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*Mather, Increase. ''A Relation of the Troubles which have Hapned in New-England, by Reason of the Indians There, from the Year 1614 to the Year 1675'' (New York: Arno Press, [1676] 1972). |
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*Orr, Charles ed., ''History of the Pequot War: The Contemporary Accounts of Mason, Underhill, Vincent, and Gardiner'' (Cleveland, 1897). |
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*Underhill, John. ''Nevves from America; or, A New and Experimentall Discoverie of New England: Containing, a True Relation of their War-like Proceedings these two yeares last past, with a figure of the Indian fort, or Palizado. Also a discovery of these places, that as yet have very few or no inhabitants which would yeeld speciall accommodation to such as will plant there . . . By Captaine Iohn Underhill, a commander in the warres there'' (London: Printed by I. D[awson] for Peter Cole, and are to be sold at the signe of the Glove in Corne-hill neere the Royall Exchange, 1638). |
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*Vincent, Philip. ''A True Relation of the late Battell fought in New England, between the English, and the Salvages: VVith the present state of things there'' (London: Printed by M[armaduke] P[arsons] for Nathanael Butter, and Iohn Bellamie, 1637). |
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===Secondary Sources=== |
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*Boissevain, Ethel. "Whatever Became of the New England Indians Shipped to Bermuda to be Sold as Slaves," ''Man in the Northwest'' 11 (Spring 1981), pp. 103-114. |
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*Bradstreet, Howard. ''The Story of the War with the Pequots, Retold'' (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1933). |
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*Cave, Alfred A. "The Pequot Invasion of Southern New England: A Reassessment of the Evidence," ''New England Quarterly'' 62 (1989): 27-44. |
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*______. ''The Pequot War'' (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1996). |
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*Cook, Sherburne F. "The Significance of Disease in the Extinction of the New England Indians," ''Human Biology'' 45 (1973): 485-508. |
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*Hauptman, Laurence M. and James D. Wherry, eds. ''The Pequots in Southern New England: The Fall and Rise of an American Indian Nation (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1993). |
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, Karen O. ''Providence Island, 1630-1641: The Other Puritan Colony'' (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993). |
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*McBride, Kevin. "The Historical Archaeology of the Mashantucket Pequots, 1637-1900," in Laurence M. Hauptman and James Wherry, eds. ''Pequots in Southern New England: The Fall and Rise of an American Indian Nation'' (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1993), pp. 96-116. |
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*______. "Prehistory of the Lower Connecticut Valley" (Ph.D. diss., University of Connecticut, 1984). |
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*Means, Carrol Alton. "Mohegan-Pequot Relationships, as Indicated by the Events Leading to the Pequot Massacre of 1637 and Subsequent Claims in the Mohegan Land Controversy," ''Archaeological Society of Connecticut Bulletin'' 21 (1947): 26-33. |
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*Michelson, Truman D. "Notes on Algonquian Language," ''International Journal of American Linguistics'' 1 (1917): 56-57. |
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*Richter, Daniel K. ''Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America'' (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001). |
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*Rouse, Irving. "Ceramic Traditions and Sequences in Connecticut," ''Archaeological Society of Connecticut Bulletin'' 21 (1947). |
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*Oberg, Michael. ''Uncas: First of the Mohegans'' (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2003). |
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*Simmons, William S. ''Spirit of the New England Tribes: Indian History and Folklore, 1620-1984'' (Dartmouth, NH: University Press of New England, 1986). |
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*Snow, Dean R. and Kim M. Lamphear. "European Contact and Indian Depopulation in the Northeast: The Timing of the First Epidemics," ''Ethnohistory'' 35 (1988): 16-38. |
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*Spiero, Arthur E., and Bruce E. Speiss. "New England Pandemic of 1616-1622: Cause and Archaeological Implication," ''Man in the Northeast'' 35 (1987): 71-83. |
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*Vaughan, Alden T. "Pequots and Puritans: The Causes of the War of 1637," ''William and Mary Quarterly'' 3rd Ser., Vol. 21, No. 2 (Apr., 1964), pp. 256-269; also republished in ''Roots of American Racism: Essays on the Colonial Experience'' (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995). |
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*_______. ''New England Frontier: Puritans and Indians 1620-1675'' (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1980) (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995 Reprint). |
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==External links== |
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*[http://www.foxwoods.com Foxwoods Resort Casino (Owned & Operated by the Mashantucket Pequots)] |
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*[http://www.foxwoods.com/TheMashantucketPequots/Home/ Mashantucket Pequot History] |
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*[http://www.dickshovel.com/peq.html Lee Sultzman's Pequot Info Webpage] |
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*[http://www.pequotmuseum.org Pequot Museum] |
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