Wangunk
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wangunk-188-11937364
title:
Wangunk
text:
The Wangunk or Wongunk are an Indigenous people from central Connecticut. They had three major settlements in the areas of the present-day towns of Portland, Middletown, and Wethersfield. They also used lands in other parts of what were later organized by English settlers as Middlesex and Hartford counties. Some sources call the Wangunk the Mattabessett, or Mattabesch, but Wangunk is the name used by scholars and by contemporary Wangunk descendants. Prior to European contact, the Wangunk spoke Q
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Indigenous People of Connecticut, US
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wangunk
date created:
2015-12-16T21:17:25Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T22:18:22Z
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13
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