Golden Hill Paugussett Indian Nation
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The Golden Hill Paugussets are a group of Native Americans living in Colchester, Connecticut and also have a small reservation in Nichols, Connecticut. They have repeatedly been denied federal recognition, because that have been unable to convincingly demonstrate descent from the original Golden Hill Paugussett tribe. This prohibits them from activities such as opening a casino.
The tribe's failure to get federal recognition also makes it difficult for them to pursue their claims to much of the land that was historically part of the Paugusset nation. They have claimed legal rights to hundreds of square miles of land running from Orange/Woodbridge in New Haven County though Fairfield County to Greenwich and extending North into Eastern Litchfield County up to the Massachusetts border.
In 1993 the tribe made national headlines when it opened a tax-free cigarette shop on the reservation. An armed standoff with state police ensued that ended without violence when Chief Moon Face Bear agreed to close the shop.[1]
[edit] Tribal Leaders
- Aurelius H. Piper Sr. (Chief Big Eagle - Hereditary Chief)
- Aurelius H. Piper Jr. (Chief Quiet Hawk - Council Chief)
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