Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation thanks Gov. Lamont and CT lawmakers for laws that 'strengthen tribal sovereignty, economic ...

Washington – The state’s political establishment is lining up to oppose the latest efforts to grant federal recognition to three Connecticut Indian tribes, with Gov. Dannel Malloy the latest ...

What makes Carapella's maps distinctive is their display of both the original and commonly known names of Native American tribes, according to Doug Herman, senior geographer at the Smithsonian ...

Then last week, the Mohegan Tribe announced that it no longer supports the use of Indian-related team names. The reversal has unsettled many in the southeastern Connecticut town, which has ...

Chris Murphy and Richard Blumenthal, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announced Monday that Indian tribes in Connecticut who had previously been denied federal recognition would not be given a second bite at ...

(Lauren Schneiderman/Hartford Courant via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT The Mohegan and Mashantucket Pequot tribes, the operators of Connecticut's two federally-sanctioned Indian casinos, have released a ...

while protecting jobs at the tribes' two existing casinos in southeastern Connecticut. A memo posted by the U.S. Department of Interior says the agency's assistant secretary of Indian affairs on ...