Paugusset

This article is about Native American tribe. For other uses, see Paugussett (disambiguation).
Paugusset
Regions with significant populations
western Connecticut, U.S.
Languages
Historically likely an Eastern Algonquian language, now English
Religion
Indigenous religion, Christianity
Related ethnic groups
Wappinger Confederacy including Potatuck, Schaghticoke people

The Paugusset are an Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands in western Connecticut. Paugusset is also the name of their principal settlement in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Historian Edward Manning Ruttenber wrote that they were a band of the Wappinger people and a subject of the Mattebesec. Ethnographer John Reed Swanton described them as the Paugusset sachemdon. A sachem was a leader among Eastern Algonquian-speaking peoples.

Today, Paugusset people are members of the Golden Hill Paugussett Indian Nation.

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