Editing Mashantucket Pequot Tribe (section)

===Pequot War===
{{Main|Pequot Massacre}}
In 1637, Connecticut and Massachusetts Bay colonies overwhelmed the Pequots during the [[Pequot War]].  This followed the Indians' attack on [[Wethersfield, Connecticut]] that left several settlers dead. The military force of the two colonies was led by [[John Mason (c.1600-1672)|John Mason]] and [[Captain John Underhill|John Underhill]], and they launched an assault on the Pequot stronghold at [[Mystic, Connecticut]], killing a significant portion of the Pequot population.<ref>For Mason and Underhill's first-person accounts, refer to John Mason, ''A Brief History of the Pequot War: Especially of the Memorable taking of their Fort at Mistick in Connecticut in 1637'' (Boston: S. Kneeland & T. Green, 1736); and John Underhill, ''Nevves from America; or, A New and Experimentall Discoverie of New England: Containing, a True Relation of their War-like Proceedings these two yeares last past, with a figure of the Indian fort, or Palizado'' (London: I. D[awson] for Peter Cole, 1638).</ref>

The colonists enslaved some of the surviving Pequots, sending some to the West Indies as labor on sugar cane plantations, putting others to indentured servitude as household servants in New England. Most of the survivors, however, were transferred to the [[Mohegan]] and [[Narragansett people|Narragansett]] tribes.<ref>Lion Gardiner, "Relation of the Pequot Warres" in ''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> A few Pequots returned to the reservation years later, and they intermarried with the colonists. Many of the Pequot descendants, while multi-racial, retained a sense of culture and continuity.<ref name="nytimes">{{citation|title=Family Behind Foxwoods Loses Hold in Tribe |date=June 2, 2007|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/22/nyregion/22pequot.html?pagewanted=all|access-date=2015-10-11|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref>
[[File:2145R Mashantucket Pequot Reservation Locator Map.svg|thumb|Location of the Mashantucket Pequot Reservation in Connecticut]]