Pequot

The Pequot were an Indigenous people of the Connecticut region. Before English colonial expansion they came to dominate much of the area. The Mohegan were formerly part of the same people.

In the seventeenth century the Mohegan separated and became rivals. In the Pequot War of 1636–1638, English, Narragansett and Mohegan forces defeated them, burning a fortified village at Mystic and killing its inhabitants. The 1638 Treaty of Hartford sought to suppress Pequot identity; survivors were dispersed or enslaved. Pequot communities later received reservations at Mashantucket in 1666 and the Pawcatuck River in 1683.