Native Americans
May 30, 2026
VOLUME 24/NUMBER 3/SUMMER 2026 Connecticut Explored Connecticut history, one good story after another. IN THIS ISSUE: America at 250 On the cover: excerpt from the painting by […]
May 30, 2026
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December 1, 2025
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September 1, 2025
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December 1, 2024
By Katherine Hermes and Alexandra Maravel Roger Williams’s A Key into the Language of America, first published in London in 1643, is one of the earliest English sources on southern New England Algonquian language and […]
August 31, 2024
Connecticut State Historian Andy Horowitz interviews people who are bringing the past into the present. There are more than 1,000 enrolled members of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation. The tribe maintains an active program of […]
August 15, 2024
In our Summer 2024 issue we asked our readers to consider whether the monuments to John Mason in the Connecticut capitol and in Windsor should remain displayed where they are. We offered an overview by […]
May 31, 2024
VOLUME 22/NUMBER 3/SUMMER 2024 Connecticut Explored Connecticut history, one good story after another IN THIS ISSUE: Monuments and Memory pg 9 Hog River Journal: Monuments and Monumental Arguments By Kathy Hermes pg 10 Guest Editor: […]
May 31, 2024
VOLUME 22/NUMBER 3/SUMMER 2024 (c) Connecticut Explored By Joshua David Carter Many, including the descendants of those who participated on both sides of the Pequot War, have deliberated why monuments to John Mason, […]
December 3, 2023
By Kathleen Patricia Thrane This excerpt from Chapter 14, “Mythologies of Light and Cast Shadow Within Northeastern Stone Chambers,” including Figures 14.1–14.4, from Our Hidden Landscapes: Indigenous Stone Ceremonial Sites in Eastern North America, edited […]
June 1, 2023
By Katherine Hermes and Alexandra Maravel (c) Connecticut Explored, Summer 2023 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Even uninhabited river islands have stories that lie beneath their quiet, green surfaces. Haddam Island, known as “Thirty Mile Island” in […]
March 1, 2023
By Stephen W. Silliman and Brenda Geer (c) Connecticut Explored Inc., Spring 2023 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! The summer of 2003 marked the 320-year anniversary of the Eastern Pequot’s fighting for and receiving their Lantern Hill Reservation […]
August 26, 2022
By Chris Newell (c) Connecticut Explored Inc., Fall 2022 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! What can Connecticut residents expect from the mandate to include Native Studies in our public school curriculum (included in the budget implementation bill […]
August 26, 2022
By Kevin A. McBride (c) Connecticut Explored Inc., Fall 2022 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! The Mashantucket Pequot Reservation in Ledyard is one of the oldest continuously occupied Indigenous landscapes in the eastern United States. Excavations and […]
May 23, 2022
(c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2022 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! People have lived in Connecticut for more than 10,000 years. About a dozen tribes of Native people lived here. Their descendants still do. They include the […]