(5/5) The outcome of the Pequot War illustrates the culturally genocidal motivation for Native displacement and enslavement. The Pequot nation survived these genocidal efforts and still remain today on their homelands as 2 distinct nations in CT. #PequotWar #Pequothistory #Indigenoushistory #Native

It was terrific to spend yesterday with TVCCA's newest employees, who will be staffing the Child Development Center operated by and for the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation. It was a day focused on culture, history, and understanding!

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In the #MysticMassacre, on #ThisDayInHistory in 1637 during the #PequotWar, English colonists massacred 500 #Pequot villagers. The US inherited a legacy of intentional #genocide of #Indigenous peoples, hence its sympathy for other colonizers and the continuous denial of its past.

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The event has been characterized as an act of genocide and was pivotal in ending the #PequotWar. In the following years, the #Pequot name and language were outlawed, the tribe dispossessed of their lands, and remaining Pequots forced into neighboring tribes or sold into slavery in the Caribbean.

The story behind a brutal war between the English and Aboriginal in America youtu.be/sKAPrg-Fh9M?... #PequotWar #AmericanHistory

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1637, in the #PequotWar, English colonists massacred 500 Pequot villagers. The United States has inherited a legacy of intentional #genocide of #indigenous peoples, hence the sympathy for other colonial projects. Conservatives are still burying the facts.