A recent article in the New York Times magazine describing the difficulty of applying international law’s definition of ...

Indeed, it is entirely possible that Uncas’s warning to the colonists, apprising them of Pequot war intentions, was a fabrication meant to provoke combat." (Axelrod 18) Historians suggest a variety of ...

Memorial Day weekend: On May 26, 1637, a Puritan force fortified by Native allies massacred a Pequot fort in Connecticut, killing as many as 500 men, women and children. This Date in Native History: ...

In this way, the town of Windsor, originally named Dorchester, became the first English settlement in Connecticut. In 1636, ...

In 1638, New Englanders began to import Africans, initially by exchanging native Americans captured in the Pequot War for black slaves in the West Indies. In 1638, William Pierce, a Boston ship ...

Those who came out of the swamp were given to the Mohegans, Narragansetts, and a smaller tribe, the Niantics. In another book, The Pequot War by Alfred Cave, the survivors in Fairfield were said to be ...

including King Philip’s War and the Pequot War. We’re related to many of the other early New England families, such as the Lawrences and the Clarkes and the Storers. My grandmother on my ...

This is how Zinn describes and utterly distorts the early settlement of North America. The Pequot War serves as his example, as it will ours. The war was climaxed when the Pequot stronghold in ...

“In the 1600s, after the Pequot War, a portion of our community was sold into slavery and sent to Bermuda. We reconnected with them in the past 30 or 40 years,” Northup said. The Warwick ...

Representatives from Connecticut’s five sovereign tribal nations, the governor and other state leaders met in Hartford Wednesday to announce a historic collaboration between the Native American ...

On Friday, state Sen. Cathy Osten, D-Sprague, highlighted the NEH grant received by the Mashantuckets, which will fund an undertaking titled, “The Pequot War: America’s First Attempted ...