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The '''Wangunk''' or '''Mattabesec''' refers to both a collection closely related [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|Indigenous nations]] all from central [[Connecticut|Connecticut.]]{{cite book |last1=De Forest |first1=John William |title=History of the Indians of Connecticut from the Earliest Known Period to 1850 |date=1853 |publisher=W. J. Hammersley |location=Hartford, CT |page=368 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QysTAAAAYAAJ}}{{Cite journal |last=Wickman |first=Thomas |date=2021 |title=Our Best Places: Gender, Food Sovereignty, and Miantonomi's Kin on the Connecticut River |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/790194 |journal=Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal |language=en |volume=19 |issue=2 |pages=215–263 |doi=10.1353/eam.2021.0008 |issn=1559-0895}} Many were members of the [[Wappinger]], a [[Munsee language|Munsee-speaking]] confederacy. The Wangunk settled along the [[Connecticut River]].{{cite book |last1=Swanton |first1=John Reed |title=The Indian Tribes of North America |date=1952 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |location=Washington, D.C. |pages=44–45 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7BmTAAAAIAAJ |access-date=30 January 2025}}
The '''Wangunk''' or '''Mattabesec''' refers to a collection closely related [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|Indigenous nations]] all from central [[Connecticut|Connecticut.]]{{cite book |last1=De Forest |first1=John William |title=History of the Indians of Connecticut from the Earliest Known Period to 1850 |date=1853 |publisher=W. J. Hammersley |location=Hartford, CT |page=368 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QysTAAAAYAAJ}}{{Cite journal |last=Wickman |first=Thomas |date=2021 |title=Our Best Places: Gender, Food Sovereignty, and Miantonomi's Kin on the Connecticut River |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/790194 |journal=Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal |language=en |volume=19 |issue=2 |pages=215–263 |doi=10.1353/eam.2021.0008 |issn=1559-0895}} Many were members of the [[Wappinger]], a [[Munsee language|Munsee-speaking]] confederacy. The Wangunk settled along the [[Connecticut River]].{{cite book |last1=Swanton |first1=John Reed |title=The Indian Tribes of North America |date=1952 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |location=Washington, D.C. |pages=44–45 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7BmTAAAAIAAJ |access-date=30 January 2025}}


Prior to English arrival, the Wangunk had three major settlements along the Connecticut River, in the areas of the present-day towns of [[Portland, Connecticut|Portland]], [[Middletown, Connecticut|Middletown]], and [[Wethersfield, Connecticut|Wethersfield]]. They also used lands in other parts of what were later organized by English settlers as [[Middlesex County, Connecticut|Middlesex]] and [[Hartford County, Connecticut|Hartford]] counties.{{cite web |url=http://yipp.yale.edu/tribe/83 |title=Wangunk |access-date=Dec 15, 2015 |website=Yale Indian Papers Project |publisher=Yale University |last=Grant-Costa |first=Paul}}
Prior to English arrival, the Wangunk had three major settlements along the Connecticut River, in the areas of the present-day towns of [[Portland, Connecticut|Portland]], [[Middletown, Connecticut|Middletown]], and [[Wethersfield, Connecticut|Wethersfield]]. They also used lands in other parts of what were later organized by English settlers as [[Middlesex County, Connecticut|Middlesex]] and [[Hartford County, Connecticut|Hartford]] counties.{{cite web |url=http://yipp.yale.edu/tribe/83 |title=Wangunk |access-date=Dec 15, 2015 |website=Yale Indian Papers Project |publisher=Yale University |last=Grant-Costa |first=Paul}}
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