Editing Pequots (section)

==Language==
[[File: Holy Bible Old Testament and New Translated into the Indian Language.jpg|thumb|Cover of 1663 Bible translated into the Wampanoag language]] 
Historically, the Pequots spoke a dialect of the [[Mohegan-Pequot language]], an [[Eastern Algonquian language]]. The [[Treaty of Hartford (1638)|Treaty of Hartford]] concluded the [[Pequot War]] in 1637, when the colonists made speaking the language a capital offense. Within a generation or so, it became largely extinct. Pequot from both the [[Eastern Pequot Tribal Nation]] and the [[Mashantucket Pequot]] now speak English as their first language.

In the 21st century, the Mashantucket Pequot are undertaking aggressive efforts to revive the language. They are conducting careful analysis of historical documents containing Pequot words and comparing them to extant closely related languages. So far, they have reclaimed more than 1,000 words, though that is a small fraction of what would be necessary for a functional language. The Mashantucket Pequots have begun offering language classes with the help of the Mashpee [[Wampanoag people|Wampanoag]].<ref>{{cite web |title=No title |url=http://www.norwichbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060223/NEWS01/602230306/1002 |website=Norwich Bulletin |access-date=2023-12-02 }}</ref>  The Wampanoag recently initiated the Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project.<ref>{{cite web |title=No title |url=http://web.mit.edu/norvin/www/wopanaak.html |website=Massachusetts Institute of Technology |access-date=2023-12-02 }}</ref> The southern New England Indian communities participating in the Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project are Mashpee Wampanoag, Aquinnah Wampanoag, Herring Pond Wampanoag, and Mashantucket Pequot.