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Mashantucket Pequot Tribe shares the importance of learning indigenous culture

November is Native American Heritage Month and Connecticut is home to several indigenous tribes, including the Mashantucket’s Pequot Tribal Nation. The tribe operates the Mashantucket Pequot Museum, ...
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From Ice Age to 1780 farmstead, Pequot museum explores indigenous heritage

In the woodlands of southeastern Connecticut, the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center offers a lifelike journey through the history of the Pequot people. Located on the Mashantucket ...
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History and culture: Mystic museum exhibition focuses on the Mashantucket Pequots

The new exhibition at the Mystic Museum of Art is a fascinating, multifaceted look at Mashantucket Pequot history and culture. “Gifts of the Ocean (Kutah Makooôkanash)” details the tribe’s past, from ...
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An Indian tribe in CT fights to tell Indigenous history in American classrooms

In the woodlands of southeastern Connecticut, an Indian tribe has found itself pushing back against the Trump administration. What began as a federally-funded workshop to teach educators about ...
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Connecticut’s tribal nations, Department of Education partnering to develop Native American studies curriculum: ‘To tell our true, tragic, yet also very wonderful history’

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 tribes ...