Word: pequots
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...disturbed, however, by Mr. Trippett's failure to mention the lawsuits that might result if some of these tribes win their claims. For example, will the Pequot Indians return to the Niantic Indians the lands they stole in the early 17th century? Will the Pawnee return the lands they stole from the Sioux and Cheyenne? Will the Iroquois return all the land they stole from the Huron, the Tobacco, the Erie, the Conestoga and the Illinois...
Indian Offensive. Aroused by the possibilities of victory, other tribes are besieging Tureen with their demands. His eight pending suits now include the Oneida claim to 300,000 acres in New York State, the Narraganset claim to 3,200 acres in Rhode Island and the Western Pequot claim to 800 acres in Connecticut. Says Tureen, who lives in a farmhouse outside Calais, Me., but flies about new England in his own Cessna: "It's their land. Legally it's theirs, and they can have it back...
Welcome to Pequot Landing, folks...
...Where today are the Pequot...the Mohican, the Pokonet, and many other once powerful tribes...They have vanished before the avarice and oppression of the White Man, as snow before the summer sun. Will we let ourselves be destroyed in our turn without a great struggle, give up our homes, our country bequeathed to us by the Great Spirit, the graves of our dead and everything that is dear and sacred to us? I know you will cry with me, 'Never! Never!'" Tecumseh of the Shawnees...