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  2. Mohegan Tribe - Wikipedia

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    The Mohegan Tribe (/ ˈmoʊhiːɡæn /) is a federally recognized tribe and sovereign tribal nation of the Mohegan people. Their reservation is the Mohegan Indian Reservation, located on the Thames River in Uncasville, Connecticut. In 1997, the Mohegan Tribe's Council of Elders adopted a vision statement reflecting their identity and roots ...

  3. Mohegan - Wikipedia

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    The Mohegan are an Algonquian Native American tribe historically based in present-day Connecticut. Today the majority of the people are associated with the Mohegan Indian Tribe, a federally recognized tribe living on a reservation in the eastern upper Thames River valley of south-central Connecticut. [1] It is one of two federally recognized ...

  4. Gladys Tantaquidgeon - Wikipedia

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    Employer (s) Bureau of Indian Affairs, Federal Indian Arts and Crafts Board. Known for. Preserving customary Mohegan spirituality, Native ceremonies and art forms. Gladys Iola Tantaquidgeon (June 15, 1899 – November 1, 2005) was a Mohegan medicine woman, [1] anthropologist, author, tribal council member, and elder based in Connecticut. [2]

  5. Uncas - Wikipedia

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    Document signed by Uncas and his wife. Uncas was born near the Thames River in present-day Connecticut, the son of the Mohegan sachem Owaneco. [1] Uncas is a variant of the Mohegan term Wonkus, meaning "Fox". [2] He was a descendant of the principal sachems of the Mohegans, Pequots, and Narragansetts. Owaneco presided over the village known as ...

  6. Connecticut tribe takes issue with schools’ Indian names

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    For decades the Montville High School athletic teams have competed as the “Indians” with the blessing of the Mohegans, the Native American tribe that traces its local history back centuries ...

  7. Pequots - Wikipedia

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    Mohegan/Mohigan. The Pequot (/ ˈpiːkwɒt /) [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 the Brothertown Indians of Wisconsin. [3]

  8. Schaghticoke people - Wikipedia

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    STN was the fourth Connecticut tribes to gain federal recognition after the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation, the Mohegan Tribe and the Eastern Pequot Tribal Nation. The Connecticut governor and other parties immediately opposed the Bureau of Indian Affairs decision, claiming adverse effects in communities due to the effects of gambling casinos.

  9. Samson Occom - Wikipedia

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    Samson Occom (1723 – July 14, 1792; also misspelled as Occum and Alcom[1][2][a]) was a member of the Mohegan nation, from near New London, Connecticut, who became a Presbyterian cleric. Occom was the second Native American to publish his writings in English (after son-in-law Joseph Johnson (Mohegan/Brothertown) whose letter to Moses Paul ...

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