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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 ...
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 ...
Mohegan Indians v. Connecticut (1705–1773) was the first indigenous land rights litigation in history in a common law jurisdiction. [1] James Youngblood Henderson, professor of law, calls the case "the first major legal test of indigenous tenure." [2] Robert Clinton calls it the "first formal litigation of North American Indian rights."
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 ...
The Pequots were the dominant Indian tribe in the southeastern portion of the Connecticut Colony, and they had long been enemies of the neighboring Mohegan and Narragansett tribes. [2]: 167 The New England colonists established trade with all three tribes, exchanging European goods for wampum and furs. The Pequots eventually allied with the ...
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]
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]
The first two—the Rhode Island Claims Settlement Act and the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act—extinguished all aboriginal title in Rhode Island and Maine, respectively, following initial court rulings in the tribes' favor. The Mohegan Nation (Connecticut) Land Claims Settlement of 1994 also followed a judicial ruling in favor of a tribe ...