Connecticut Water Trails Association

 
 

The rhythm of the sea speaks to me
- Chief Dan George

 

Table Of Contents

Connecticut Water Trails

Basic Concepts

History Of Connecticut's Water Trails

Native Americans

 

 

Connecticut Water Trails Program

 

History Of Connecticut's Water Trails

 

Native Americans

 

The Sepous

 

 

Location

 

Lived in Hartford County, Connecticut. Farmington River 8-10 Miles West Of The Connecticut

 

Name Origin

 

Language Spoken

 

Algonquin. The R-dialect spoken by the Wappinger was almost identical to that of the Mattabesic in western Connecticut and the Metoac tribes of western and central Long Island.

 

Connecticut Village Locations

 

Waterbury and Wethersfield

 

Population

 

Culture

 

History

 

Though they engaged in basket and food trade with the first settlers to what is now Waterbury and Wethersfield, the tribe was subject to Sequassen, the sachem who sold the English the land that became Hartford, Connecticut.

 

 

 


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