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Three times over the past five years, the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs has rejected the petitions of Quiet Hawk and his followers, ruling that they failed to demonstrate sufficient links to the Golden Hill Paugussett tribe from which they claim to be descended. The ancestral Paugussetts were hunting and fishing around Bridgeport when the first English settlers arrived in the 1600s, but their numbers had dwindled by the late 1800s. Despite his setbacks, Quiet Hawk, a former social worker who now labors full time on his crusade, has persisted--and has persuaded the BIA to take an unusual fourth...
Quiet Hawk's people claim to be descended from a man named William Sherman, who they say was a member of the original Paugussett tribe. Sherman was born in New York in 1825 and spent his youth whaling before arriving in Trumbull at age 32. It was he who bought the quarter-acre lot in 1875 and preserved it as the tribe's then only reservation. Sherman's race in the 1880 Census was listed as "Indian." He was identified as a Paugussett in his newspaper obituary in 1886, and in two books published shortly before he died...
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