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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of a Native American people of eastern Connecticut. The Pequot and the Mohegan were the same people until the Mohegan broke away under Uncas in the early 1600s.
- noun The Algonquian language of the Pequot, dialectally related to Mohegan and Montauk.
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- noun One of a
tribe ofNative Americans who formerly inhabited easternConnecticut .
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Examples
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The gruesome death of John Oldham touched off a period of violence between the colonists and Natives known as the Pequot War.
The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010
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The gruesome death of John Oldham touched off a period of violence between the colonists and Natives known as the Pequot War.
The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010
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The gruesome death of John Oldham touched off a period of violence between the colonists and Natives known as the Pequot War.
The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010
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Before their conquest by the English in 1637, the Pequot were the most dreaded of the southern New England tribes.
History of American Women Maggiemac 2008
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j It has alfo been called Pequot fwamp, on the accoUtit of the memorable battle fought in this place with the Pequots.
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Sen. Grassley has also previously publicly attacked the SEC's investigation into potential insider trading at hedge-fund firm Pequot Capital management.
SEC Asks for Time on Query Jean Eaglesham 2011
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In 2009, he asked the SEC for information about referrals of suspicious trading it had received related to Pequot since 2005 and about any resulting investigations.
SEC Asks for Time on Query Jean Eaglesham 2011
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Sen. Grassley has also previously publicly attacked the SEC's investigation into potential insider trading at hedge-fund firm Pequot Capital management.
SEC Asks for Time on Query Jean Eaglesham 2011
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So when a doofus like Eric K wonders about the Cherokee or the Sioux (a more informed guy would have talked about the Pequot: begin at the beginning), it illustrates the utterly half-baked ideology that ‘informs’ (so to speak) the way progressives pose on immigration.
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A parallel might be the U.S. issuing a visa only to majority-black Harlem in Manhattan, or the Mashantucket Pequot reservation in Connecticut.
Global Voices in English » Palestine: Travelers Say Israel is Illegally Denying Access 2009
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