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Pequots   Listen
noun
Pequots  n. pl.  (Written also Pequods)  (singular Pequot) (Ethnol.) A tribe of Indians who formerly inhabited Eastern Connecticut.






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... families, such as the Algonquins, the Hurons, the Iroquois, each of these families again containing many tribes. All the Indians in New England belonged to the Algonquin family, but were, of course, divided into many tribes. One of these tribes was called the Pequots. They were very powerful, and they tyrannised over the other tribes round about. They hated the white men, and whenever they had the ...
— This Country Of Ours • H. E. Marshall Author: Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall



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