Saukiog

Saukiog was an Indigenous community on the Connecticut River at the place later called Hartford. The river brought Dutch traders into the valley, and in 1633 they established the fortified House of Hope near the mouth of the Little River. Three years later Thomas Hooker and his English followers founded Hartford upstream from the Dutch post. Saukiog and neighbouring river peoples navigated these new relationships amid competition with the Pequot and Mohawk.