page_title: Mohegan-Pequot language
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Mohegan-Pequot language / History
context_page_description: Mohegan-Pequot is an Algonquian language formerly spoken by indigenous peoples in southern present-day New England and eastern Long Island.
context_section_description: The Mohegan Indian Tribe was historically based in central southern Connecticut. While originally part of the Pequot people, it gradually became independent and allied with English colonists in the Pequot War of 1637. This broke the power in the region of the Pequot who were formerly the dominant tribe. In reward, the English gave Western Pequot taken as captives to the Mohegan.
caption: Lester Skeesuk, a Narraganset-Mohegan, in traditional dress
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