- The
Wangunk or
Wongunk are an
Indigenous people from
central Connecticut. They had
three major settlements in the
areas of the present-day
towns of Portland...
- (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...
-
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"...
-
central Long Island,
including the Quinnipiac, Unquachog,
Mattabessett (
Wangunk), Podunk, Tunxis, and
Paugussett (subgroups Naugatuck, Potatuck, Weantinock)...
-
Sequin or "River Indians" (which
included the Tunxis, Schaghticoke, Podunk,
Wangunk, Hammon****et, and Quinnipiac), the
Mattabesec or "Wappinger Confederacy"...
- once
occupied by
Algonquian language-speaking
Native Americans called the
Wangunk,
along the
Connecticut River. The
Mattabesset River reaches the Connecticut...
- University. The hill was
originally named "Wunne Wah Jet" by the
indigenous Wangunk people who
lived in Middletown. Sowheage, a
grand sachem in the tribe,...
-
European settlement, the
section forest nearest Haddam was part of the
Wangunk village of ****aponset.
Modern acquisition of
forest parcels began in 1926...
- M****achusetts Patuxet, M****achusetts Pokanoket, M****achusetts,
Rhode Island Wangunk, Mattabeset,
Connecticut Wenro, New York Wicocomico, Maryland, Virginia...
