Pequot
Americannoun
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Pequots,
plural
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Pequot
plural
noun
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a member of a North American Indian people formerly living in S New England
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the language of this people, belonging to the Algonquian family
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Etymology
Origin of Pequot
First recorded in 1625–35, from Narragansett ( English spelling) Pequttôog (plural), and the cognate in other SE New England languages, e.g., ( Dutch spelling) Pequat(s),Pequatoo(s), probably literally, “people of the shoals”
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Didn’t the Puritans burn the village of the Pequot people?
From Salon ● Jan. 13, 2024
He moved from the investment bank to hedge fund Pequot Capital Management where he worked until it went out of business in 2009.
From Reuters ● Oct. 26, 2023
On Saturday, the Fargo Police Department will escort his cremains to Pequot Lakes, Minnesota, where a funeral service will be held.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 21, 2023
I am a tribal elder in the Eastern Pequot Tribal Nation and 36-year D.C. resident who has fully embraced its professional football team.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 9, 2022
Sixteen years later, however, the Indigenous villages had recovered and were a barrier to the settlers moving into the Colony of Connecticut, which was in Pequot territory.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Lamont‘s chief of staff, Paul Mounds, issued a statement saying the administration agrees the Mashantucket Pequots, owners and operators of Foxwoods Resort Casino, “must be a party in any agreement.”
From Washington Times ● Mar. 3, 2021
The Eastern Pequots had their own plans for a casino with a different builder.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 25, 2016
Pequots, meanwhile, kept Trump out of the Connecticut market, and their giant Foxwoods casino thrived for years before the gambling industry fell on hard times.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2016
The Mashantucket Pequots also say the Catskills are ideal.
From New York Times ● Jun. 11, 2013
Like the nations of the Powhatan Confederacy, the Pequots and their diplomatic allies spoke closely related Algonquian languages.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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