The tribe allied itself with the colonists in the 1636 war against the Pequot people.

However, conflict continued with the Mohegans over control of the Pequot people and land.

They are descended from the Pequot people, one of the Algonquian-languages family.

Before the 17th century, the Pequot people had established an empire across southeastern Connecticut.

The Pequot were defeated and the Mohegan incorporated much of the remaining Pequot people and their land.

In 1637 the colonists had sided with the Mohegans in the Pequot War, which wiped out most of the Pequot people.

After studying the sensitivity and appropriateness of the statue's location near the historic massacre of Pequot people, a commission chartered by Groton, Connecticut voted to have it relocated.

The Mohegan, originally part of the Algonquian-speaking Pequot people, became independent through the 17th and 18th centuries; they allied with the English during the Pequot War of 1637.

In 1648 the Town of Fairfield officially gave five farmers, collectively known as the Bankside Farmers, permission to settle the fertile land that the Pequot people were living in.

After preaching for several years to the Pequot people in Montauk on eastern Long Island, Occom was ordained in Suffolk County, New York as a Presbyterian minister.

Southeastern New England was dominated by the powerful Pequot people at the time of English encounter; they spoke the Mohegan-Pequot language and were one of the Algonquian-speaking tribes in the coastal areas.

In the 17th century, when English settlers arrived, southeastern Connecticut was the scene of rivalry between the Pequot people, the dominant Native American group in the New London area, and the newly independent Mohegan.

While originally part of the Pequot people, it gradually became independent and served as allies of English colonists in the Pequot War of 1637, which broke the power of that formerly dominant tribe in the region.

One can also contrast the relatively coarse split-ash carrying baskets of the Onondaga and Pequot peoples, painted in simple motifs, with the infinitesimally fine, sometimes feathered weaving of the small baskets made by the Pomo Indians of California.

The present territory of Stonington was part of lands that had belonged to the Pequot people, who referred to the areas making up Stonington as Pawcatuck (Stony Brook to the Pawcatuck River) and Mistack (Mystic River to Stony Brook).