CT proposing $1M for each of five state-recognized tribes. Here’s why.
The Mohegan Tribe, based in Uncasville, received formal federal recognition in 1994 and has more than 2,400 members, many of ...
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Resolution calls for CT to condemn a genocide within its borders
Connecticut commemorates the Holocaust every ... Osten, whose district includes the tribal lands of the Pequots and the Mohegans who warred with them as allies of the colonists, said she abandoned ...
Proposed commission would regulate tribal members' hunting, fishing rights
Southeastern Connecticut’s federally recognized Indian tribes — the Mashantucket Pequots and the Mohegans — expressed support this week for a bill calling for a 20-member commission that would ...
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Connecticut’s tribal nations, Department of…
Representatives from Connecticut’s five sovereign tribal nations, the governor and other state leaders met in Hartford Wednesday to announce a historic collaboration between the Native American ...
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NECCOG takes four dogs, eight puppies from home on Mashantucket tribal land
Northeastern Connecticut Council of Governments animal control has temporarily taken into possession four dogs and eight puppies from a home on Shewville Road, following complaints of dogs being ...
As federal environmental priorities shift, sovereign Native American nations have their own plans
Native nations regained federally recognized rights and political power at the same time as the national environmental awakening. In fact, tribal nations exercised environmental sovereignty in ways ...
Resolution condemning 1638 treaty that targeted Pequots moves forward in legislature
A state legislative committee has endorsed a proposed resolution condemning parts of the 1638 Treaty of Hartford that aimed to erase the Pequot Indian tribe in the wake of the Pequot War, a pivotal ...