[cll]

This is a very strange development. Never heard of the Pequots before. We don't have any native tribes here on the islands. Anyone from CT care to chime in?

[cll]

Puerto Rico Ping! Please Freepmail me if you want on or off the list.

[PghBaldy]

The ship in “Moby-Dick” is named after them. I think they run a casino in CT. Foxwoods?

[Steely Tom]

“Welcome to the Hotel Puerto Rico.”

[Behind Liberal Lines]

The original intent of these casino deals was to allow Native Americans to run a profitable business on their tribal lands. Branching out into other areas of the country is basically creating a little mini fiefdoms that are exempt from local and state regulation

[Verginius Rufus]

W. C. Fields, "Where are my Pequots?"

Or maybe it was, "Where are my kumquats?"

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

There is a reason so many have never heard of the Pequot tribe. They were massacred by Colonists, Narragansett and Mohegan allies allies back in 1637, a shadow that hanged over Massachusetts for over 200 years.

Then, in 1864, at the height of the Civil War, when Chivington, believing the Cheyenne were instigated by Confederate agents, hit the Cheyennes at Sand Creek, the good citizens of Boston took up a hue and cry for the poor Cheyennes, and smoked the critics off their Pequot massacre.

Now everyone knows about Sand Creek but forget about the Mystic massacre of the Pequots. I hope they do well with their casinos.

[Clemenza]

But every Puerto Rican from Loiza to Lorain, Ohio will tell you that they are descended from Taino royalty!

Went to Foxwoods in CT many years ago. Not my thing, but it sure was mobbed with grandmothers pulling the crank.