Some of the earliest accounts documenting the Indian experience of the maritime world emerge in the court records and runaway advertisements during the eighteenth century.  These are among the very few records available to highlight the ways in which Indians began to both adapt to and resist English institutions.

    The Treaty of Utrecht, which ended Queen Anne's War in 1713 and terminated inter-colonial conflicts between the French and English, also transformed the power structure between the English and Indians in the region.

    As Indian people were increasingly alienated from their lands and subject to English law, they actively renegotiated their existence within Anglo political, economic, and religious structures in order to maintain the connections to family and community that had existed unrestricted only a little more than a generation earlier.[1] 

    As the century progressed and their depth of experience increased, Indians developed a clearer understanding of English legal and economic systems.  With this, Indians began to gain some control over their lives and livelihoods. 

    Indians throughout the region were engaged in numerous court cases involving land loss and encroachment, trials for theft, murder, and breach of service (runaways).  In the first quarter of the eighteenth century, they also appeared as jurors of (More)

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In memory of K9 Reme

K9 Reme, a faithful service dog and partner at the MPTN Police Department, passed on February 6, 2008. Reme was born on March 12, 1997 and came to Mashantucket all the way from Hungary.

    Reme served as a patrol and narcotics detection K-9 with the Mashantucket Tribal Police Department from 1999 through 2007.  Besides handling day to day activity here on the Reservation, and participating in many programs at the Child Development Center as well as the Child Advocacy Center, Officer Reme was called upon by various neighboring agencies to assist with K-9 searches.  Officer Reme retired in October 2007 and resided with his handler, Detective Sergeant Katy Tougas.  He will be missed by all that worked (More)

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Ernie D honored with jersey number retirement

Ernie DiGregorio's career at Providence College was celebrated over a weekend of festivities with friends and families in Providence March 7-8. Ernie, now a celebrity host at Foxwoods, had his jersey No. 15 retired. Joining him for the Friday night dinner were Mashantucket Pequot Councilor Maureen Sebastian, left, and Council Secretary Charlene Jones.

It was an Ernie night. In fact, it was an Ernie weekend.

Ernie DiGregorio, Foxwoods' celebrity host, had his Providence College jersey number retired and was celebrated at a big dinner. Then, they even played a basketball game in his honor.

    To be sure, he had to share the weekend celebrations with two other great players from Providence College: Marvin Barnes and the late Jimmy Walker. But for Ernie, and his many friends from the Mashantucket Pequot reservation in attendance, it was his show. Councilors Maureen Sebastian and Charlene Jones were in attendance, and Foxwoods was a major sponsor of the weekend.

    Ernie's career at Providence was legendary: A consensus All-American, he and Barnes let the team to the 1973 Final Four

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