Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation

The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation will use its grant to carry out a series of academic and public programs in remembrance of the 375th anniversary of the Pequot War, including: an academic three-day conference titled Seventeenth Century Warfare, Diplomacy, & Society in the American Northeast, public and hands-on family programming to include a 17th-century military encampment, local “Community Conversations,” and a K-12 teacher workshop. Available public resources will be an academic conference publication and an online curriculum-based resource with lessons and activities for K-12 educators. Published resources will be available online and will be placed in community and school libraries. Research presented by the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center and participating academics at the conference will contribute to an updated 17th-century Pequot War exhibition gallery script and provide training for museum education staff.