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CT_Cryptids t1_j56qo1m wrote
Reply to comment by STODracula in What is the creepiest urban legend from your town? by Stamfordsterling
There’s always the Moodus Noises, which have lots of great stories associated with them.
CT_Cryptids t1_j56qjdc wrote
Reply to comment by CTRealtorCarl in What is the creepiest urban legend from your town? by Stamfordsterling
The Downs Road Monster and the Charles Sanford murders are somewhat related because the murders happened near the southern end of Downs Road. There’s not a direct line, but Sanford may be how stories of the Downs Road Monster began.
The whole thing is a bizarre tale. Sanford definitely had a mental illness but he likely snapped because his uncle — no joke — was murdered by a cult in New Haven.
http://www.murderbygaslight.com/2013/03/murdered-by-maniac-guest-post-by-james.html?m=1
QuestorPS7 t1_j56pec3 wrote
Reply to comment by stacefacex0 in What is the creepiest urban legend from your town? by Stamfordsterling
Stephen King for sure lived in Stratford for a while as a child and talks about it in his book On Writing. He doesn’t mention the train incident, but he does talk about how a trashed, vacant lot near his family’s apartment in Stratford has appeared in many of his books, including It.
mistiklest t1_j56ogid wrote
Reply to comment by maxanderson350 in "Native Land Digital" is an indigenous-led, Canadian-based non-profit group seeking to raise awareness of where original Native American tribes owned property. They admit that this is a work in progress, not perfect, and seek corrections. Thought the CT map (with some NY) was quite interesting. by CTHistory42
> Only question I have is what is the time period for this?
I think it's more of an archive of the places that still extant Indigenous groups count as their homelands than it is a historical or archaeological document.
QuestorPS7 t1_j56m2h8 wrote
Reply to Legislative Session Coverage – CT Mirror by gabbydeben
A state-sponsored single payer health option and/or Husky4All.
mistiklest t1_j56ldkv wrote
Reply to comment by red_purple_red in "Native Land Digital" is an indigenous-led, Canadian-based non-profit group seeking to raise awareness of where original Native American tribes owned property. They admit that this is a work in progress, not perfect, and seek corrections. Thought the CT map (with some NY) was quite interesting. by CTHistory42
Why?
red_purple_red t1_j56j8pb wrote
Reply to "Native Land Digital" is an indigenous-led, Canadian-based non-profit group seeking to raise awareness of where original Native American tribes owned property. They admit that this is a work in progress, not perfect, and seek corrections. Thought the CT map (with some NY) was quite interesting. by CTHistory42
Do NOT look up the major donors to this organization!
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mistiklest t1_j56hyer wrote
Reply to comment by maxanderson350 in "Native Land Digital" is an indigenous-led, Canadian-based non-profit group seeking to raise awareness of where original Native American tribes owned property. They admit that this is a work in progress, not perfect, and seek corrections. Thought the CT map (with some NY) was quite interesting. by CTHistory42
> Europe, Asia, and the Middle East are more or less empty of indigenous peoples. I found that particularly odd because those are the parts of the world historians know the most about due to extensive records and archeological finds.
The way they seem to be using the term indigenous peoples seems to be in distinction to colonizers. In this sense, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East don't have indigenous people, because they've not been colonized.
Then again, Europeans, Asians, and Middle Easterners also spent a lot of time conquering and killing each other.
brownstone79 t1_j56hx8c wrote
Reply to "Native Land Digital" is an indigenous-led, Canadian-based non-profit group seeking to raise awareness of where original Native American tribes owned property. They admit that this is a work in progress, not perfect, and seek corrections. Thought the CT map (with some NY) was quite interesting. by CTHistory42
When I was a kid, the Simsbury Historical Society’s main property was called Massaco Plantation. I always thought it was a cool tribute to the former tribe.
brownstone79 t1_j56fvh2 wrote
Reply to comment by xtermin8r69 in "Native Land Digital" is an indigenous-led, Canadian-based non-profit group seeking to raise awareness of where original Native American tribes owned property. They admit that this is a work in progress, not perfect, and seek corrections. Thought the CT map (with some NY) was quite interesting. by CTHistory42
They were a real tribe from around North central CT. There’s a Podunk river in East Hartford/South Windsor.
Whaddaulookinat t1_j56cjkf wrote
Reply to comment by Swede577 in "Native Land Digital" is an indigenous-led, Canadian-based non-profit group seeking to raise awareness of where original Native American tribes owned property. They admit that this is a work in progress, not perfect, and seek corrections. Thought the CT map (with some NY) was quite interesting. by CTHistory42
Very interesting, thank you!
Whaddaulookinat t1_j56cduz wrote
Reply to comment by CTHistory42 in "Native Land Digital" is an indigenous-led, Canadian-based non-profit group seeking to raise awareness of where original Native American tribes owned property. They admit that this is a work in progress, not perfect, and seek corrections. Thought the CT map (with some NY) was quite interesting. by CTHistory42
I'm really not familiar with the recent Schaghticoke on-goings but I do remember some drama about that.
If you really want a wild, wild ride the Golden Hill tribe in Bridgeport is a great encapsulation on a whole lot of threads about Native history. Granted though there's a lot of tragedy in that too.
Squadbeezy t1_j56bx3b wrote
Reply to comment by CTHistory42 in "Native Land Digital" is an indigenous-led, Canadian-based non-profit group seeking to raise awareness of where original Native American tribes owned property. They admit that this is a work in progress, not perfect, and seek corrections. Thought the CT map (with some NY) was quite interesting. by CTHistory42
Totally. I think I’ve heard the phrase “time immemorial” when describing how long Native Americans have lived places - at least in the Pacific Northwest.
WikiSummarizerBot t1_j56be5h wrote
Reply to comment by Swede577 in "Native Land Digital" is an indigenous-led, Canadian-based non-profit group seeking to raise awareness of where original Native American tribes owned property. They admit that this is a work in progress, not perfect, and seek corrections. Thought the CT map (with some NY) was quite interesting. by CTHistory42
>Quinnipiac is the English name for the Eansketambawg (meaning "original people"; cf. Ojibwe: Anishinaabeg and Blackfoot: Niitsítapi), a Quiripi-speaking Native American nation of the Algonquian family who inhabited the Wampanoki (i. e. , "Dawnland"; c.
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Swede577 t1_j56bccs wrote
Reply to comment by Whaddaulookinat in "Native Land Digital" is an indigenous-led, Canadian-based non-profit group seeking to raise awareness of where original Native American tribes owned property. They admit that this is a work in progress, not perfect, and seek corrections. Thought the CT map (with some NY) was quite interesting. by CTHistory42
The Quinnipiac's that spoke Algonquin at one point controlled all of CT.
Since 1997, more extensive research, based on linguistics and early historical records, has extended the boundaries of the 1500-1600 AD Quiripi/Renapi/Quinnipiac confederacies to include all of what is now Connecticut, eastern New York, northern New Jersey, and half of Long Island (prior to the immigration of the Pequot/Mohegan peoples into eastern CT
jdloyola t1_j56axpl wrote
Reply to "Native Land Digital" is an indigenous-led, Canadian-based non-profit group seeking to raise awareness of where original Native American tribes owned property. They admit that this is a work in progress, not perfect, and seek corrections. Thought the CT map (with some NY) was quite interesting. by CTHistory42
Nice Shinnecock.
CTHistory42 OP t1_j56ablj wrote
Reply to comment by Whaddaulookinat in "Native Land Digital" is an indigenous-led, Canadian-based non-profit group seeking to raise awareness of where original Native American tribes owned property. They admit that this is a work in progress, not perfect, and seek corrections. Thought the CT map (with some NY) was quite interesting. by CTHistory42
I am gob-smacked (to steal a favorite term from my British friends). I only knew of the Schaghticoke gfight with the feds for property and tribal land recognition (actually, basic tribal status - they have some land). Thanks again!
Swede577 t1_j56a5gm wrote
Reply to comment by maxanderson350 in "Native Land Digital" is an indigenous-led, Canadian-based non-profit group seeking to raise awareness of where original Native American tribes owned property. They admit that this is a work in progress, not perfect, and seek corrections. Thought the CT map (with some NY) was quite interesting. by CTHistory42
The state found a PaleoIndian site in Avon on the Farmington River that was radiocarbon dated to 12500 years old. They would have been some of the first human inhabitants after the last ice age.
Whaddaulookinat t1_j569nsz wrote
Reply to comment by CTHistory42 in "Native Land Digital" is an indigenous-led, Canadian-based non-profit group seeking to raise awareness of where original Native American tribes owned property. They admit that this is a work in progress, not perfect, and seek corrections. Thought the CT map (with some NY) was quite interesting. by CTHistory42
Kent, CT although last I heard the corporation does have holdings in NY but I'm in no way aware if its contiguous to what else they have or how big.
CTHistory42 OP t1_j569gi9 wrote
Reply to comment by Whaddaulookinat in "Native Land Digital" is an indigenous-led, Canadian-based non-profit group seeking to raise awareness of where original Native American tribes owned property. They admit that this is a work in progress, not perfect, and seek corrections. Thought the CT map (with some NY) was quite interesting. by CTHistory42
I will definitely check out the link / Controversy section. Thank you!
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Had no idea about the Ramapo and Kent (Kent, CT or Kent, NY?)
Whaddaulookinat t1_j568leu wrote
Reply to comment by CTHistory42 in "Native Land Digital" is an indigenous-led, Canadian-based non-profit group seeking to raise awareness of where original Native American tribes owned property. They admit that this is a work in progress, not perfect, and seek corrections. Thought the CT map (with some NY) was quite interesting. by CTHistory42
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramapough_Mountain_Indians
A pretty good primer under the "Controversy" section... I did a very deep dive years ago on the Ramapo and seems pretty much in line with what I remember but I'd have to comb through that section with the research notes I have somewhere here. I should say there is a slight difference between the northern (NYS/CT) Lenape - Ramapo and the southern (NJ/PA)... but the article gives an idea why adding the Munsee is not totally solid.
IIRC the Ramapo in Kent are still trying to get only state recognition with the property they've accumulated past the green. I should say in honest that family lore is that our original English ancestry intermarried with the CT Ramapo for a whole lot of generations and honestly going through the existing records I could it seemed plausible if not extremely likely.
gabbydeben OP t1_j5689mc wrote
Reply to comment by SnakeFang93 in Legislative Session Coverage – CT Mirror by gabbydeben
Hey! This is another issue we've seen a lot of interest in — our fantastic housing reporter, u/GinnyMonk1, has covered affordable housing in Connecticut. The General Assembly is likely to take up legislation surrounding housing and zoning in 2023, as she reported earlier this month: https://ctmirror.org/2023/01/05/ct-legislative-session-housing-evictions-zoning-homelessness/.
One state law passed three decades ago — commonly referred to by its statutory reference, 8-30g — was designed to encourage affordable housing development in CT's suburban communities. An "explainer" on 8-30g can be found here: https://ctmirror.org/2022/10/18/ct-8-30g-affordable-low-income-housing-rent-cost-of-living/.
CT_Cryptids t1_j56ra0u wrote
Reply to What is the creepiest urban legend from your town? by Stamfordsterling
The “creature in the dairy barn” in Ellington is a particularly fun one.
http://newenglandfolklore.blogspot.com/2010/08/monster-in-barn.html?m=1
Ditto the Mystic Pigman
https://www.damnedct.com/damned-interview-courtney-mcinvale/