Claim: The Tunxis were a group of Connecticut Native Americans, their location makes them one of the Eastern Algonquian-speaking peoples and they called their leader sachem.
Evidence: The Tunxis were a group of Connecticut Native Americans that is known to history mainly through their interactions with English settlers in New England. Broadly speaking, their location makes them one of the Eastern Algonquian-speaking peoples of Northeastern North America, whose languages shared a common root. In 1688, the Tunxis demonstrated their friendliness by allowing a local Englishmen to suggest who he felt their sachem (leader) should be, and accepted his choice.