FDI - Pequot

The Pequot were a bellicose sedentary hunter/farmer nation from whom the Mohegan split off late. The occupied the Connecticut coast from the Niantic River to the Wecapaug River barely into Rhode Island. The tribe was virtually destroyed by the attack of their capital village of Mystic by the Mohegan and Narragansett allied with the English. They were then harshly ruled by the Mohegan until they were finally moved to eastern Connecticut.

Aboriginal Locations: Subdivisions (Villages)

CT (19)

RI (1)

Year	*History*
1614	First met the Dutch; English slave traders introduced three separate epidemics (1614-1617)
1620	Plymouth Colony established
1622	Fur trade on the lower Connecticut River prompted the Dutch to establish a permanent trading post near Hartford; Pequot subjugated some neighboring tribes to gain a trade advantage; the resident trader for the Dutch West India Company, Jacob Elekens seized Tatobem, a Pequot sachem and threatened to kill him of trade control; he was ransomed for wampum but Elekens wanted furs so he killed him, the outraged Pequot burned the post; Pieter Barentsen replaced Elekens and trade resumed
1630	Puritans arrived in Massachusetts
1633	Boston traders had reached the Connecticut River; the Dutch built a fortified trading post (House of Good Hope); Pequot became split over trade alliances, Sassacus favored the Dutch and Uncas favored the English and Uncas and his followers fissioned from the Pequot and became known as the Mohegan
1634	Smallpox epidemic
1635	English built a fort at Saybrook near the mouth of the Connecticut River causing the Dutch to withdraw from their post at Hartford
1636	Englishman Thomas Hooker settled at Hartford; Mohegan and Narragansett allied with the English against the Pequot; Mohegan under Uncas and Narragansett under Canonchet attacked and destroyed the Pequot fort at Mystic capturing 180 and killing and beheading sachem Sassacus, the remaining Pequot sachems surrendered
1638	Mohegan absorbed the surviving Pequot and worked them like slaves
1655	The surviving Pequot were removed from the Mohegan to two separate locations in eastern Connecticut
1675	Pequot warriors fought among the Mohegan in King Philip's War on the side of the English
1856	Connecticut sold off 600 acres of Pequot land
1976	Pequot received a $700,000 settlement for previous lands taken
1983	Mashantucket Pequot received federal recognition
1992	Mashantucket Pequot opens Foxwoods gambling casino

*Ethnie:*	PEQUOT
*Language:*	Mohegan-Pequot
*Family:*	Eastern Algonquian
*Stock:*	Algonquian
*Phylum:*	Algic
*Macro-Culture:*	Eastern Woodlands
Speakers	None

Year	Total CT Population	Source
1600		Mooney estimate
1643		Swanton
1700		NAHDB calculation
1705		Swanton
1774		Swanton
1800		NAHDB calculation
1804		Swanton
1809		Swanton
1900		NAHDB calculation
1910		Census
1970		Census
2000		NAHDB calculation
2005		Reservation rolls