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General Assembly Proposed Senate Joint
Resolution No. 16
January Session, 2025
LCO No. 1991
Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION
AND ELECTIONS
Introduced by:
SEN. OSTEN, 19th Dist.
RESOLUTION CONDEMNING THE PROVISIONS OF THE TREATY OF
HARTFORD OF 1638 THAT SOUGHT TO ERADICATE THE PEQUOT
CULTURAL IDENTITY.
Resolved by this Assembly:
That this Assembly condemn the provisions of the Treaty of Hartford, 1
an agreement between the English inhabitants in Connecticut and the 2
Narragansett and Mohegan Tribes in 1638, that sought to eradicate the 3
Pequot cultural identity by prohibiting the Pequots from returning to 4
their lands, abolishing their tribal name and forcing them to assimilate 5
into the Mohegan and the Narragansett Tribes and the remaining 6
members of the Pequot Tribe to be sold into slavery or killed. 7
Statement of Purpose:
To condemn the provisions of the Treaty of Hartford of 1638 that sought
to eradicate the Pequot cultural identity.