Pequot history is an unprecedented story of redemption and restoration, which is featured at the Tribe’s world-class Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center ( Today, the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation owns and operates one of the largest and most successful resort casinos in North America-Foxwoods Resort Casino ( with a variety of other enterprises, including the Lake of Isles Golf Course ( Pequot Pharmaceutical Network ( and the Spa at Norwich Inn ( All together, the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation remains one of the State of Connecticut’s highest tax payers and largest employers, and has contributed more than $3 billion to Connecticut through the first-of-its-kind tribal gaming revenue-sharing agreement, enacted in 1993.
In 1637, the Pequots became the first native people to survive a genocidal massacre at the hands of European immigrants, in what would become the continental United States. 1666) located in southeastern Connecticut. The Mashantucket Pequots are a native Algonquin people who endured centuries of conflict, survival, and continuity on and around North America’s oldest Indian reservation (Est. About the Mashantucket (Western) Pequot Tribal Nation
