#Pequot

[theirmarks]

Momoho. 

Eastern Pequot Sachem. Their home in and around the places today called “Mystic, Connecticut” and “Stonington, Connecticut.”

Momoho’s signed name appearing here on an October 1, 1676 appeal to the General Court of Connecticut, petitioning the court for access to hunting grounds, winter clothing, and wampum owed.

Seen at the John Hay Library, Providence, RI.

Some kin: Father, Tatobem. A daughter, Oskoosooduck (or Mary Momoho, Mary Ninigret or Mary Sowas). Sons, Wootagonkquam, Cutshamakin.

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[odettecarotte]

After much prolonged sauntering and many random inquiries, I learnt that there were three ships up for three-years' voyages -- the Devil-dam; the Tit-bit; and the Pequod. Devil-Dam, I do not know the origin of; Tit-bit is obvious; Pequod, you will no doubt remember, was the name of the celebrated tribe of Massachusetts Indians, now extinct as the ancient Medes. I peered and pryed about the Devil-Dam; from her, hopped over to the Tit-bit; and, finally, going on board the Pequod, looked around her for a moment, and then decided this was the very ship for us.

Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

The Pequot were not extinct.

From the Mashantucket  (Western) Pequot Tribal Nation website:

“Tribal History

The history of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation is one of dramatically changing fortunes. Native peoples have continuously occupied Mashantucket in Southeastern Connecticut for over 10,000 years. By the early 17th century, just prior to European contact, the Pequots had approximately 8,000 members and inhabited 250 square miles. However, the Pequot War (1636-1638) -- the first major conflict between colonists and an indigenous New England people -- had a devastating impact on the Tribe.

When the Pequot War formally ended, many tribal members had been killed and others placed in slavery or under the control of other tribes. Those placed under the rule of the Mohegans eventually became known as the Mashantucket (Western) Pequots and were given land at Noank in 1651. In 1666, the land at Noank was taken from the Tribe, and it was given back property at Mashantucket. 

In the ensuing decades, the Pequots battled to keep their land, while at the same time losing reservation members to outside forces. By 1774, a Colonial census indicated that there were 151 tribal members in residence at Mashantucket. By the early 1800s, there were between 30 and 40 as members moved away from the reservation seeking work. Others joined the Brotherton Movement, a Christian-Indian movement that attracted Natives from New England to a settlement in upstate New York and later, Wisconsin. As for the remaining land in Connecticut, by 1856 illegal land sales had reduced the 989-acre reservation to 213 acres.

In the early 1970s, tribal members began moving back to the Mashantucket reservation, hoping to restore their land base and community, develop economic self-sufficiency, and revitalize tribal culture. By the mid-1970s, tribal members had embarked on a series of economic ventures, in addition to instituting legal action to recover illegally seized land.

With the assistance of the Native American Rights Fund and the Indian Rights Association, the Tribe filed suit in 1976 against neighboring landowners to recover land that had been sold by the State of Connecticut in 1856. Seven years later the Pequots reached a settlement with the landowners, who agreed that the 1856 sale was illegal, and who joined the Tribe in seeking the state government's support. The state responded, and the Connecticut Legislature unanimously passed legislation to petition the federal government to grant tribal recognition to the Mashantucket Pequots and settle the claim. With help from the Connecticut delegation, the Mashantucket Pequot Indian Land Claims Settlement Act was enacted by the U.S. Congress and signed by President Reagan on Oct. 18, 1983. It granted the Tribe federal recognition, enabling it to repurchase and place in trust the land covered in the Settlement Act. Currently, the reservation is 1,250 acres.

As the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation sought to settle its land claims, it also actively engaged in a number of economic enterprises, including the sale of cord wood, maple syrup, and garden vegetables, a swine project and the opening of a hydroponic greenhouse. Once the land claims were settled, the Tribe purchased and operated a restaurant, and established a sand and gravel business. In 1986, the Tribe opened its bingo operation, followed, in 1992, by the establishment of the first phase of Foxwoods Resort Casino.The ceremonial groundbreaking for the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center took place on Oct. 20, 1993, in a ceremony marking the 10th anniversary of federal recognition of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation. The new facility, opened on August 11, 1998, is located on the Mashantucket Pequot Reservation, where many members of the Mashantucket Pequot tribal members continue to live. It is one of the oldest, continuously occupied Indian reservations in North America.”

[thehoodrocks]

Life in the Illinois prairie.

[spearkarrier]

The Arrow Has Been Shot

It’s taken quite a many conversations with people who know way more than I do, a lot of soul searching, and overall a lot of reading but the new direction is mostly set. I’ve thought about it, and even though this website ends with drama I would rather have not been touched by I’ll share it here anyway. It is the best most positive direction I can take. During my time with this project, I often…

[teachanarchy]

Watch "Puritans & Pilgrims in New England | US History to 1865 | Study Hall" on YouTube

[audhdnight]

Absolutely wild that the same people who won’t celebrate Halloween because “even if the current celebration isn’t demonic, it’s still in honor of demonic forces” will turn around and say that they should have the right to celebrate thanksgiving because “all that stuff is in the past and I’m not doing it the way it was originally done so it’s fine”.

[historydailyfrancischappellblack]

Puritan colonizers under Captain John Mason and their Mohegan and Narragansett allies set ablaze the Pequot Fort near the Mystic River in Connecticut. May 26, 1637.

Subscriber Content Add content here that will only be visible to your subscribers. Payment Image: Pequot Massacre, 1637. The English colonists under the command of Captain John Mason destroyed the Pequots and their fort near Stonington (Connecticut) in May 1637. This wood engraving depicts the slaughter in the 19th century. On this day in history, May 26, 1637, Puritan colonizers under…

[aideshou]

What an interesting life chopped champ pizza boiii has had. When he was two he fell out of a 2nd story window and a folding lawn chair saved his life, now he brings one everywhere. He also became a chopped champion and somehow ended up on my island as a summer worker.

[markashtonlund]

The Pequot

Pequot Museum on X In what has become a personal tradition of mine, on my birthday I spend the day at a museum. I often seek a museum I’ve never visited to mark the occasion and to learn something new. With my 59th birthday this past Thursday (I know, I still can’t believe it!), I visited the Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center in Mashantucket, CT. To quote from their website, “The…

[theirmarks]

Robin Cassasimom (Cassasinamon) + Neesawegun (Nesahegan). Their Marks.

Robin Cassasinamon: Pequot. His home in and around Mashantucket, in so-called Southern Connecticut. Pequot Sachem by 1655 until his death in 1692.

Nesahegen: Sachem at Pequonnock, their homelands near so-called Hartford, Connecticut, south of that place, and on the east side of the Kwinitekw (Connecticut) River. Sachem after 1635.

Nesahegan’s kin: sisters Patakhouse and Amannawer. Sons, Sepanquat and Wenammcomepon. An uncle, Sehat. A cousin, Coggerynosset.

The document containing their marks outlines the bounds of Pequot and Narragansett homelands. Signed August 4, 1662 in so-called New London, Connecticut. Seen at the Massachusetts State Archives.

[travelella]

Pequot Lakes, Minnesota, USA

Drew Dau

This home was sold for 3 million USD.

It features:

5,797 Square Feet

7 Car Garage

6 Bedrooms

4 Full Bathrooms

1 Partial Bathroom

224 feet of shoreline

250 feet of peninsula frontage

Sand Beach

Boat House

4 Season Porch With Fireplace

Lakeside Hot Tub

[tichaona-chinyelu]

How I Pray

National Poetry Month is in full effect as of yesterday. Every year, like a ritual, I try to honor my favorite way of expressing myself creatively. Every year, like some rituals, I fail! However, this year, I am in writer mode so I’m gonna give it the ole Tichaona try! This piece has been adapted from one of my works in progress for National Poetry Month 2023. It will be part of the book I’m…

[roggenkamp]

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[spearkarrier]

Mohegan-Pequot Languages: Which Witch is Which?

This website doesn’t normally worry about the technical side of languages because we’re more centered on learning how to speak the language than we are the linguistic data. However I found some language classes claiming to teach Mohegan… but. They aren’t lying… exactly. It’s important to clear things up a little to those who are just as confused as I have been. I promise not to go into too much…

[apoemaday]

Who Died and Made You American

by Franny Choi

In the afterlife of apocalypse, my people, too, are settlers of a theft. Pay me like a man whose ancestors burned down the homes

of Pequot children. Deserve, deserve, what a sad little word. I’m an upstanding citizen of a country far from earned. I’m a child

of immigrants, of strategic importance, imports from one immolation to another. Pay my honest mother

in taxes and guilt. If the land in me could speak to the land I live on, what would it say? Maybe I’m sorry. Or, where does it hurt?

My cheeks are stuffed with sweetgrass and ssuk. Maybe I’m only ever singing that awful song: O beautiful.

O beautiful. And it is, some days, driving through the “untouched” hills to the place where I’m paid.