Mohegan

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The Mohegan (, Mohegan-Pequot: mohiksak) are an Algonquian Native American people based in present-day Connecticut.They are part of the Eastern Algonquian linguistic and cultural family and historically shared close ties with the neighboring Pequot, from whom they separated in the early 17th century. The Mohegan are primarily enrolled in the Mohegan Tribe, a federally recognized tribe living on a reservation in the eastern upper Thames River valley of south-central Connecticut. At the time of European contact, the Mohegan and Pequot were a unified tribal entity living in the southeastern Connecticut region, but the Mohegan gradually became independent as the hegemonic Pequot lost control over their trading empire and tributary groups. Over time, the Mohegan gradually lost ownership of much of their tribal lands. In 1978, Chief Rolling Cloud Hamilton petitioned for federal recognition of the Mohegan. Descendants of his Mohegan band operate independently of the federally recognized nation...

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