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    The Wangunk or Wongunk are an Indigenous people from central Connecticut. They had three major settlements in the areas of the present-day towns of Portland...
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  • (Paugussett) a 17th-century chief's name – "Mianu/Mayanno's" Moodus): (Wangunk) from "mache moodus" or "bad noises" Shared with the Moodus River and Moodus...
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  • (tidal) stream" Pequabuck: (Wangunk) "clear, open pond" Pistapaug Pond: (Quinnipiac) "muddy pond" Pocotopaug Lake: (Wangunk) "divided pond" or "two ponds"...
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    under its original Native American name, Mattabeseck, after the local Wangunk village of the same name. They were among many tribes along the Atlantic...
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  • once occupied by Algonquian language-speaking Native Americans called the Wangunk, along the Connecticut River. The Mattabesset River reaches the Connecticut...
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    central Long Island, including the Quinnipiac, Unquachog, Mattabessett (Wangunk), Podunk, Tunxis, and Paugussett (subgroups Naugatuck, Potatuck, Weantinock)...
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    University. The hill was originally named "Wunne Wah Jet" by the indigenous Wangunk people who lived in Middletown. Sowheage, a grand sachem in the tribe,...
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    Sequin or "River Indians" (which included the Tunxis, Schaghticoke, Podunk, Wangunk, Hammonasset, and Quinnipiac), the Mattabesec or "Wappinger Confederacy"...
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    Mi'kmaq saqamaw Ninigret Malecite-Passamaquoddy sakom Western Abnaki sôgmô Wangunk sequin Central Algonquian Proto-Central Algonquian *okimāwa theoretical...
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    Massachusetts Patuxet, Massachusetts Pokanoket, Massachusetts, Rhode Island Wangunk, Mattabeset, Connecticut Wenro, New York Wicocomico, Maryland, Virginia...
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    European settlement, the section forest nearest Haddam was part of the Wangunk village of Cockaponset. Modern acquisition of forest parcels began in 1926...
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    the Simsbury area; the Tunxis tribe in West Hartford and Farmington; the Wangunks to the south; and the Saukiog in Hartford itself. The first Europeans known...
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    Pomptons, Wapings, Opings, Opines, Massaco, Menunkatuck, Naugatuck, Nochpeem, Wangunk Wappans, Wappings, Wappinghs, Wapanoos, Wappanoos, Wappinoo, Wappenos,...
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    Pattaquonk. Pattaquonk was also the name and approximate location of a 30-acre Wangunk reservation established in 1662 as part of the English acquisition of the...
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    Oregon Country Luckton 400 1830 Hall J. Kelley 332 NE Woodlands New England Wangunk 400 1600 James Mooney 333 SE Woodlands Louisiana Purchase Avoyel 400 1698...
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    the Pequots stepped up their raids on Connecticut towns. On April 23, Wangunk chief Sequin attacked Wethersfield with Pequot help. They killed six men...
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    064 acres (2,049 ha). The lake's name reportedly comes from the local Wangunk Indian language for "Lake with Pierced Islands" or "Divided Pond". According...
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    population was 20,845 at the 2020 census. It was originally land of the Wangunks (a tribe of Native Americans). Europeans began to settle the area of Rocky...
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  • (often mis-stated to be Sequasson), an ally of Miantonomi, who was likely a Wangunk or Nipmuc sachem living near the Connecticut River. The name "Wawaloam"...
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    of East Haddam was inhabited by at least three Indigenous peoples: the Wangunk, the Mohegan and the Niantic. The Indigenous nations called the area "Machimoodus"...
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    ground on Hungry Hill in 1638. During the Pequot War, on April 23, 1637, Wangunk Chief Sequin, who had lived with the colonists in Wethersfield but had...
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    Spignesi WMA Stanley Works WMA Suffield WMA Talbot WMA Tankerhoosen WMA Wangunk Meadows WMA Wopowog WMA Zemko Pond WMA Reservoirs Aspetuck Reservoir Barkhamsted...
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    Spignesi WMA Stanley Works WMA Suffield WMA Talbot WMA Tankerhoosen WMA Wangunk Meadows WMA Wopowog WMA Zemko Pond WMA Reservoirs Aspetuck Reservoir Barkhamsted...
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    Patuxet, Massachusetts Pokanoket, formerly Massachusetts, Rhode Island Wangunk (Mattabeset), formerly Connecticut Wawyachtonoc, formerly Connecticut,...
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  • land. Recorded deeds show that the Wangunk tribe made another land sale in 1672, and the remaining parcels of Wangunk land were sold between 1765 and 1769...
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    Spignesi WMA Stanley Works WMA Suffield WMA Talbot WMA Tankerhoosen WMA Wangunk Meadows WMA Wopowog WMA Zemko Pond WMA Reservoirs Aspetuck Reservoir Barkhamsted...
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  • certified letter returned "attempted, not known" 11/5/1997. Grasmere Band of Wangunk Indians of Glastonbury, Connecticut, Middleton, CT (formerly the Pequot...
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    courses. The Wangunk tribe lived in the area prior to European settlement, and lived in Portland continuously throughout the settler period. Wangunk descendants...
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    language-speaking Native Americans. This may have included the Tunxis, Quinnipiac, Wangunk, and the Wappinger. In 1651, the Mattabesset settlement was incorporated...
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    peoples were part of two major cultural groups: the Lenape and the Wappinger-Wangunk-Quinnipiac peoples,[citation needed] both part of the Algonquian languages...
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