Editing Pequots (section)

===Pequot War===
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Members of the Pequot tribe killed a resident of [[Connecticut Colony]] in 1636, [[John Oldham (colonist)|John Oldham]], and war erupted as a result.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Blackhawk |first=Ned |title=The Rediscovery of America |publisher=Yale University Press |year=2023 |isbn=9789401920063}}</ref> The [[Mohegan]] and the [[Narragansett (tribe)|Narragansett]] tribes sided with the colonists. Around 1,500 Pequot warriors were killed in battles or hunted down, and others were captured and distributed as slaves or household servants. A few escaped to join the [[Mohawk people|Mohawk]] and the [[Niantic people|Niantic]] tribes on [[Long Island]]. Eventually, some returned to their traditional lands, where family groups of friendly Pequots had stayed. Of those enslaved, most were awarded to the allied tribes, but many were also sold as slaves in Bermuda.<ref>Lion Gardiner, "Relation of the Pequot Warres," ''History of the Pequot War: The Contemporary Accounts of Mason, Underhill, Vincent, and Gardiner'' (Cleveland, 1897), p. 138; Ethel Boissevain, "Whatever Became of the New England Indians Shipped to Bermuda to be Sold as Slaves," ''Man in the Northwest'' 11 (Spring 1981), pp. 103–114; and [[Karen O. Kupperman]], ''Providence Island, 1630–1641: The Other Puritan Colony'' (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993), p. 172.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~massasoit/bermuda.htm|title=Rootsweb: Pequot-Bermudian Reconnection Festival 2002|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081217141058/http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~massasoit/Bermuda.htm|archive-date=2008-12-17}}</ref> The Mohegans treated their Pequot captives so severely that officials of Connecticut Colony eventually removed them. Connecticut established two reservations for the Pequots in 1683: the Eastern Pequot Reservation in [[North Stonington, Connecticut]] and the Western Pequots (or Mashantucket Pequot Reservation) in [[Ledyard, Connecticut|Ledyard]].