Schaghticoke (tribe)
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The Schaghticoke are a Native American tribe of the Eastern Woodlands consisting of Mahican/Mohican (not Mohegan), Pootatuck (Potatuck), Weantinock, Tunxis, Podunk and other "Connecticut" "New York" and "Massachusetts" indigenous people who amalgamated together due to white settler encroachment on their ancestral lands. Their 400 acre (1.6 km²) reservation (map)[1] is located on the New York/Connecticut border within the boundaries of Kent in Litchfield County, Connecticut running parallel with the Housatonic River. One of the oldest reservations in North America, reserve land was granted to the Schaghticoke in the year 1736 by the General Assembly of the Colony of Connecticut, 40 years prior to the formation of the United States. The language/culture base is Algonquian with Iroquois influence.
Today the Tribe, the Schaghticoke Tribal Nation consists of approximately 300+ members, maintaining strong cultural and political ties across the last 3 clan/family lines: Kilson, Cogswell and Harris. As of the early 1990s a faction of Schaghticokes split off from the main core of Schaghticokes due to political differences and maintains its own tribal base (aka Schaghticoke Indian Tribe) of 45+ members.
Schaghticoke is pronounced /ˡskæt.ə.koʊk/ SCAT-uh-coke or /ˡskæt.ə.kʊk/ SCAT-uh-cook (early colonial spelling: Scaticook) derived from an Algonquian word Pishgoch-ti-goch meaning "Where the river forks."
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