Indigenous Peoples of Connecticut

The word Connecticut comes from the Indian word Quinnehtukqut meaning "beside the long tidal river"

Tribes and Bands of Connecticut
The following list of tribes is compiled from:


 * Hodge, Frederick Webb. Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico. Washington D.C. Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of Ethnology. Bulletin #30 1907.
 * Swanton, John R. The Indian Tribes of North America.Smithsonian Institution Bureau of Ethnology, Bulletin #145.

Hammonassetts, Mahican, Mohegan, Nehanticks, Narraganset, Niantic, Nipmuc, Nipnet or Nipmucks, Paugussett, Pequannock, Pequot, Podunk, Ponus, Quiripeys or Quinnipiac, Sachem, Schaghticoke, Sachemdom or Montewese, Wangum, Wongunk, Wappinger, Wasc-ssux, Wepawaugs, Winnipiacs

Golden Hill Paugussett Tribe -- The Connecticut State Library has some records for this tribe, 1836-1995. Their collection includes some genealogies.

Eastern Pequot -- The Connecticut State Library has some records for this tribe, 1836-1995. Their collection includes some genealogies.

Mashantucket Pequot

Mohegan Tribe

Paugesset Pequot

Schaghticoke Tribe

Western Pequot -- The Connecticut State Library has some records for this tribe, 1836-1995. Their collection includes some genealogies.

New England Confederation: Paugussett, Naugatucks, Pootatuck, Wepawaug and Pequannock


 * Corun Hill Reservation (1680 in Huntington)
 * Eastern Pequot Reservation
 * Golden Hill Reservation (1650's near Statford)
 * Mashantucker Reservation (State, 1667 for Western Pequot's)
 * Mohegan Indian Reservation
 * Paucatuch Reservation (Eastern Pequot)
 * Pequot Reservation (State, Tribes: Pequot and Mohegan in Fairfield and New London Counties)
 * Schaghticoke Reservation (near Kent)
 * Turkey Hill Reservation (1674)

Reference


 * Isaacs, Katherine M., Omni Gazetteer of the United States of America, U.S. Data Sourcebook Volume 11 Appendices, Bureau of Indian Affairs List of American Indian Reservations Appendix E, Indian reservations, Omnigraphics, Inc., 1991,

= Agencies =

Trading Post
Leaping Deer (1979)

See also:
Connecticut - History