Claim: The Tunxis were a group of Connecticut Native Americans, their location makes them one of the Eastern Algonquian-speaking peoples and smallpox killed many in the region.
Evidence: In 1634, shortly after English colonists migrating from the Massachusetts Bay Colony moved into the region, a smallpox epidemic swept through the region, killing many of the natives; the Tunxis people would have been as affected as the other groups. Broadly speaking, their location makes them one of the Eastern Algonquian-speaking peoples of Northeastern North America, whose languages shared a common root. The Tunxis were a group of Connecticut Native Americans that is known to history mainly through their interactions with English settlers in New England.