A Pequot were the tribe or even united states of Native Americans who, in the 17th century, inhabited much of what is okay, Connecticut. It spoke an Algonquian language closely related to that of the Mohegan. A tribe was nearly eliminated in the Pequot War of 1637. Modern remnants hold out when a Mashantucket Pequots and the Eastern Pequot Tribal Nation (a.k.the. Paucatuck Pequots).

This article covers a Pequot as an tribe, or nation.

History
Origin
A Pequot & a Mohegan were one tribe that migrated toward central & eastern Connecticut onetime as much as 1500, probably from a upper Hudson Flow of any stream Valley. Onetime fallowing that & prior to email by owning Europeans, they experienced split into them militant groups. A Pequot became a dominant tribe inside central & eastern Connecticut, collecting tribute from either more tribes. A class action probably numbered just about 6,000 around 1620, but smallpox and wars had reduced this to 3,000 by 1637.

The Pequot War
Independent article: Pequot War

Within 1637 difficulties between a English settlers of Connecticut & Massachusetts & the Pequot became open warfare. A Mohegan & a Narragansett sided with a English. Peradventure 1,500 Pequot were flushed, around specific battles or even track down. Virtually all of the rest were captured & distributed when slaves or even personal servants. A select couple few escaped to exist as absorbed per Mohawk or on Long Island. Of people enslaved, virtually all were awarded to the allied tribes however a bit of were sold to plantations in the West Indies. A Mohegan particularly treated a surety & their descendent then badly that a English around Connecticut late flushed the two. Both reservations were founded by 1683 and remain in a bit of form to this day.

Modern history
Per 1910 census the entire Pequot people reached the on line of 66. It has since full-grown; since so, a people has rebounded somewhat, & there are ii present-contemporary settlements of Pequot inside Connecticut.

Geography
A 1130 member Eastern Pequot Tribal Nation have a reservation called "Lantern Hill." It is recognized by Connecticut & a United States government. A 350 Mashantuckett or western Pequot gained federal recognition in 1983 and have a reservation in Ledyard.

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Culture
To exist as written along a lines of Wikipedia:WikiProject Ethnic Groups Template

Institutions
To become written along a lines of Wikipedia:WikiProject Ethnic Groups Template, should discuss governmental and more institutions of the ii surviving reservations, + anything known just about historical institutions.

Classification
Applicability of the term "tribe" to the Pequots
This article utilizes a term "tribe" to describe various elastic of Indigen Americans. A groups within New England were not super formally organized. What you today deem the tribe was the village or even collection of villages adhering to a sachem or other leader. These alignments shifted when leaders arose & populations rose or even fell.