As Connecticut and America emerged from colonial governments to independence, members of local Native American tribes saw the opposite happening to their governance, culture, language and traditions.
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Chris Newell, former education supervisor for the Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center, said during his six years at the museum it was not uncommon for a student or parent to ask, innocent.
Last November, the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Council asked Joshua Carter to be the interim director at the Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center. Carter said he was humbled by and apprecia.
Long before the first visitor stepped onto the shores of a beautiful “New World” there were vibrant communities of Indigenous people throughout the continent who had experienced centuries of culture,.