Talk:Mashantucket Pequot Tribe

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I am a Pequot, and I am very proud to be one and to be owning a casino and a museum that displays some of our culture!

                                -Bright Eyes

[edit] Book link

I don't understand why a user keeps removing the link to the book "Hitting the Jackpot: The Inside Story of the Richest Indian Tribe in History". Could you please explain why you wish to remove this information from the encyclopedia? Rhobite 04:39, Jun 22, 2005 (UTC)

One can only say that the problem with these books is that they are used to raise issues with not just one group but Indian Country as a whole. If you are to post links to these books why not post books and articles that show the benefits of Indian Gaming to not only Indian Country but the communities that exist within the areas of Indian-owned casinos. Not only that... the books you refer to are known propaganda tools. There are facts in those books.. however, the authors have written them to such a degree as to say "We should terminate these Historical Tribal Governments." Hitler had the same idea about the Jews. Matt Bigos- A Schaghticoke Indian

Fine you keep your links... and I raise you 4. Nighty-night.

As a descendent of German immigrants I am really really tired of having Hitler dragged out as a devil-figure at every opportunity. It trivializes what happened to the Jews, disabled of all races in Germany, gypsies, Jehovah's Witnesses, and assorted other "undesirables". Hitler took action on what was common opinion at the time; if my Polish ancestors hadn't been pretty people, and let into the United States by the screeners at Ellis Island (who could tell undesirables just by looking at them - Stephen Jay Gould's Mismeasure of Man) - I wouldn't be here to object to the bugaboo being waved in our faces by someone unfamiliar with Hitler or the people at Mashantucket.

The book link being argued about presents a counterweight to the general tone of the article. I grew up in Ledyard. I don't know what happened to the founder of the people at Mashantucket in his school, but in ours the history of what happened at the Pequot fort and afterwards was told completely and simply, with no coloring one way or another. I witnessed the "gathering" of the "tribe". The book is about that one group -- who bought their identity with Malay Chinese money -- and not about any of the people who were here when the English came. Necia1127 (talk) 02:31, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] NPOV

This article suffers from substantial non NPOV writing. I just reverted some edits that had been made and summarized some stuff that seemed way to lengthly. For instance Benedict's claim regarding the tribe was given a single line and was edited to include the POV phrase "unsubstantiated heresay against the Mashantuckets." Laurence Hauptman's response was given a large separate paragraph and seven sentences. That's just unbalanced. I do think that Hauptman's comments should be put into a separate article that links from here as there was some good information in there that still warrants inclusion into its own article. zimmhead 15:24, 1 March 2008 (UTC)