The Mashantucket Pequot Indian were the people the English slaughtered and later nearly destroyed. This happened four hundred years ago. In the 1970's this tribe was reduced to a small spit of land where two women were the sole caretakers. As the Pequot tell their story in their museum, (which my wife and I visited on their land) an African-Mashantucket Pequot Indian had the messianic vision, and ability to win the congressional battles that got their Federal recognition, and began a process of obtaining the legal rights to more and more of their traditional land. Their casino, although the state of Connecticut puts small effort in promoting it, is prosperous.
The thrust of my point is the simple but profound. Were it not for the African the Mashantucket Pequot Indian would not be. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories (novembre 2009)
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