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A map of the traditional territory of Mahican affiliated tribes. The Wawyachtonoc are shown in dark green in the bottom right. Wawyachtonoc (also rendered Wyachtonok, Wawayachtonoc, and Wyaghtonok) were an Algonquian-speaking Native American people indigenous to east central New York and northwest Connecticut.
Native American Placenames of the United States. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 080613576X. Campbell, Lyle (1997). American Indian Languages: The Historical Linguistics of Native America. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195094271
American Indian reservations in Connecticut (5 P) S. Schaghticoke tribe (7 P) W. Wappinger (3 C, 10 P) Pages in category "Native American tribes in Connecticut"
Indian Place Names of New England, Museum of the American Indian Heye Foundation; O'Brien, Frank Waabu (2010). Understanding Indian Place Names in Southern New England. Colorado: Bauu Press. Trumbull, James H. (1881). Indian Names of Places, etc., in and on the Borders of Connecticut: With Interpretations of Some of Them.
In Chatham, one was established for a man named Sawsean and his descendants. The third, 300 acres in size, was established for Sowheag, the sachem of Mattabesett, and the Native peoples of Mattabesett. [6] In a 1761 survey of indigenous peoples in Connecticut, local Native peoples still resided at "Mattabéeset (at Wongunck, opposite Middletown ...
Massaco was a native settlement in Connecticut, United States, near the present-day towns of Simsbury and Canton along the banks of the Farmington River. [1] The small, local Algonquian-speaking Indians who lived there in the 17th and early 18th centuries belonged to the Tunxis, [2] a Wappinger people.
Pages in category "Connecticut placenames of Native American origin" The following 48 pages are in this category, out of 48 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
"General view of the Green, Norwalk, Conn." published in 1855 by Ballou's Pictorial 1847 Map of Norwalk. The history of Norwalk, Connecticut ranges from pre-contact cultures and Native Americans to the 21st century.