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Before their massacre by Massachusetts Puritans in, the Pequots were preeminent in southern New England, Their location on the eastern Connecticut shore made them important producers of the wampum required to trade for furs from the Iroquois, They were also the only Connecticut Indians to oppose the land hungry English, For those reasons, they became the first victims of white genocide in colonial America,

Despite the Pequot War of, and the greed and neglect of their white neighbors and "overseers," the Pequots endured in their ancestral homeland.
Inthey achieved federal recognition, Inthey commemorated theth anniversary of the Pequot War by organizing the Mashantucket Pequot Historical Conference, at which distinguished scholars presented the articles assembled here.