We would like to acknowledge that the State of Connecticut occupies the unceded homelands, for 13,000 years, of the

Eastern Nehantics, along the border of Connecticut and Rhode Island

Hammononassetts, in the Clinton and Killingworth area

Matabesecs (or Wappingger) Confederacy, in the Western part of Connecticut/Eastern New York

Menunkatucks, in the Guilford area

Mohegans, in the Thames River valley between Norwich and Uncasville

Narragansetts, in the Rhode Island area

Nipmunks, in Tolland and Windham counties

Paugussetts, (Golden Hill) of Stratford and Huntington, and surrounding townships on both sides of the Housatonic River in New Haven and Fairfield counties

Pequots, (Mashantucket), from the Niantic River, west, along the hills of New London County to a point ten miles east of the Paucatuc River, and North ten to twelve miles from Long Island Sound

Podunks, River Tribe, on the East side of the Connecticut river, in East Windsor, South Windsor and East Hartford

Quinnipiacs, extended along the shore from Milford to Madison

Schaghticoke, in West-Central, Litchfield County, near Kent

Sepous, Tunxis, located on the Farmington river 8-10 miles west of the Connecticut

Wangunks, river tribe, in Wethersfield and Middletown

Wepawaugs, on the East bank of the Housatonic river

Western Nehantics, from the Connecticut River, eastward along the seashore, to a small steam which retains their name.

They have and continue to steward this land through the generations. We thank them and aspire to uphold our responsibilities according to their example.