The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-18
Connecticut Indians
 Topic Of New Book
Written for Committee on Historical Publications of
 State Tercentenary Commission

, of land in 1e40. This purchase inc cluded what are now the towns of | Pennington, Southington, nearly the whole of New Britain, and Ber- lin, Bristol, Burlington. Avon and | Plainfield."
 Of the Massacoea, Mir spiess de- clares, "The tribal territory cover ed what is now Simsbury, Canton adn part of Granby, East Granby
 and Barkhamstead."
 The Aagawams were neighbors and the name Agawam meant "a place, the level of which is lower
 than the surrounding land. q
 meadow" So their tribal territory
 extended from Massachusetts into
 what is now Connecticut and com- prises what are the present towns
 of Suffield. Harland and parts of
 Granby, East Granby, and Enfield.
 'The Nipmuck country extended
 into Connecticut only as far south ake at Rockville but originally 1t included the present towns of Somers, Stafford, Union, Wood
 stock, Thompson, Putnam, and parts of Ellington, Holland, Will
 lington, Ashford, Pomfret and Kill lingly," says Mir Spiess.
 The present townships within the Western Nehantios area are listed by MT Spiess as Lyme, old ,, Lyme, East Lyme, and Waterford. Of the Wangunks' territory have been carved the towns of Wethers- field, Newington, Rocky Hill, Crom- we'll, Portland, East Hampton, Middietown, Middlefield, Durham, Haddam, Chester, and part of Glastonbury, New Britain, Berlin,
 Meriden, East Haddam, Marlboro,
 Colchester and Killingworth. The mishimayagatt. (great traiD, from Shawmlrt, (Boston), to
 Manhattan, followed the shore be- tween Rhodes Island and New
 York. accepting the section from Guilford to North Haven. Here 1t
 turned, hence the name Quinnipiac
 which is corrupted form of quin-
 nuppin-uk; that is, turning about, or, changing it's course" So Mir Spiess says of the Quinni- piac Indians whose territory was
 where now are the towns Meriden, Cheshire, Wallinsford, Hamden.
 North Haven, East Haven, New
 Haven, Brandford, North Branford, and part of Bethany, Prospect, New Britain an dthe eastern cor
 ner of Waterbury.
 "The Poquonock territory in-
 cluded the present townships of Windsor, Windsor Locks, and part | of East Granby, and Rloomfield.
 Their principal village, when the l white settlers arrived, was on the
 Pennington river. still known as
 Poquonock. At Pine Meadow, south 1 of Windsor Locks, one of their
 burying places was investigated
 years ago and a string of copper
 beads was found in one of the | graves"
 The Hammonassett Indians had 1 the present towns of Soybrook,
 Essex, old Saybrook, Westbrook, Clinton, and part of Killingworth and Madison. A small tribe was that of the Menunketucks, who occupied "the present township of Guilford and nearly all of Madison" I The Paugussetts once consisted
 "of five clans which sometimes
 were known as distinct tribes. These were Wipawaugs, Unkowas, Potatucks, Pomeraugs, and Nauga- l tucks." The present towns within their terrietory are Orange, Mill ford, Stratford, Fairfield, Bridge port, Weston, Easton, TrumbuH, Shelton, Ansonia, Woodbridge, | Derby, Seymour, Monroe, Bedding Bethel, Danbury, Bridgewater, | Southbury, Newtown, Oxford, Bea- con Falls, Bethany, Naugatuck, | Middlebury, Waterbury, Woodbury. l Roxbury, and part of Wolcott, l Prospect, Plymouth and New Fair field.
 Out of New York came the Si-
 wanogs whose territory in this l state includes the towns of Green wich, Stamford, Darien, Norwalk, | New Canaan, Wilton, and Ridge field, and "all they left behind are a few names of places such as
 Miossehassy, Petaquapen, Sauga- tuck and Noroton." The Scatacook tribe was founded by a Pequot named Mauwehu, when the remnants of other tribes were retreating before the advanc- ing colonists who became more and
 more numerous. We find bands of indians who had settled near New Milford and later at Kent, forming
 a new tribe known as the Scato- cooks" Among the Indians at Kent came | "Moravian missionaries who began l to convert the Scatocooks. Many
 accepted Christianity as their re- l ligion and a church was built. It is said that about 150 Scatacooks
 were baptized"
 When the white people came, their land having been sold not
 by the Indians but by Connecticut, | reservations were laid out for the | Indians, and the remnant of this | tribe still lives on one of the
 original reservations.
 Tn the year 1891 there were only thirty-five individuals of this tribe living at Kent. In 1S49 there were but eight or ten full bl0ods
 besides twenty or thirty half breeds. Those living to-day are all
 of mixed blood," MT Spiess ex- plains.
 Paralleling MT spiess' work is the essay by Howard Bradstreet | entitled "The Story of the War | with the Pequots, ReTold, "a fight | which the author declares twas a l remarkable ction to take.''
 "On the one hand was a small | group of peace loving men who l had come into the Connecticut | valley with their lives. children, and all their gods to establish a
 home. They were without experi-
 ence in war, and unaequainted | with the methods of Indian fight-
 ing.
 "On the other hand were the | powerful and numerous Pequots | who were the terror of all the | tribes of Connecticut. They were | warriors who had come into the
 region. overpowering the native | tribes and dominating them ira- periously."
 By sudden action and sharp l blows the few men of the settler l English forces broke the Indian power, killing men, women, and | children in raids that were terrify- ingly unexpected. and driving the survivors relentlessly until they were either outside the COnnecti-