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Treaty of Hartford and Indigenous Dispossession

Hartford, Connecticut, CT

Treaty of Hartford and Indigenous Dispossession

Treaty of Hartford and Indigenous Dispossession

The Treaty of Hartford ended the Pequot War and resulted in the near-total dispossession of the Pequot people, who were forced to surrender their land and were banned from using their name or assembling in their ancestral territory[3]. This treaty marked one of the first major examples of …

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