- The
Wangunk or
Wongunk were an
Indigenous people from
central Connecticut. They were a
subdivision of the
Wappinger people, a Munsee-speaking people....
-
under its
original Native American name, Mattabeseck,
after the
local Wangunk village of the same name. They were
among many
tribes along the Atlantic...
- (tidal) stream" Pequabuck: (
Wangunk) "clear, open pond"
Pistapaug Pond: (Quinnipiac) "muddy pond"
Pocotopaug Lake: (
Wangunk) "divided pond" or "two ponds"...
- once
occupied by
Algonquian language-speaking
Native Americans called the
Wangunk,
along the
Connecticut River. The
Mattabesset River reaches the Connecticut...
-
central Long Island,
including the Quinnipiac, Unquachog,
Mattabessett (
Wangunk), Podunk, Tunxis, and
Paugussett (subgroups Naugatuck, Potatuck, Weantinock)...
- (Paugussett) a 17th-century chief's name – "Mianu/Mayanno's" Moodus): (
Wangunk) from "mache moodus" or "bad noises"
Shared with the
Moodus River and Moodus...
-
Sequin or "River Indians" (which
included the Tunxis, Schaghticoke, Podunk,
Wangunk, Hammon****et, and Quinnipiac), the
Mattabesec or "Wappinger Confederacy"...
- Pomptons, Wapings, Opings, Opines, M****aco, Menunkatuck, Naugatuck, Nochpeem,
Wangunk Wappans, Wappings, Wappinghs, Wapanoos, Wappanoos, Wappinoo, Wappenos,...
- Mi'kmaq
saqamaw Ninigret Malecite-P****amaquoddy
sakom Western Abnaki sôgmô
Wangunk sequin Central Algonquian Proto-Central
Algonquian *okimāwa theoretical...
- the
Simsbury area; the
Tunxis tribe in West
Hartford and Farmington; the
Wangunks to the south; and the
Saukiog in
Hartford itself. The
first Europeans known...
