Tunxis

This article is about the Native American tribe. For other uses, see Tunxis (disambiguation).
Tunxis
Total population
Extinct as a tribe
Regions with significant populations
United States ( Connecticut)
Languages
an Eastern Algonquian language
Religion
Indigenous religion
Related ethnic groups
Other Wappinger tribes and other Algonquian peoples

The Tunxis were an Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands from Connecticut. They were a tribe of Wappinger people who spoke an Eastern Algonquian language and are mainly known to history through their interactions with English settlers in New England.

Also known as the Sepous, they were one of several Native communities in the lower Connecticut River Valley who shared common cultural traits.

In 1634, shortly after English colonists migrating from the Massachusetts Bay Colony moved into the region, a smallpox epidemic swept through the region, killing many of the Natives. The Tunxis people would have been as affected as the other groups.

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