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Extinct Native American tribe from Connecticut
Ethnic group
Podunk
Total population
extinct as a tribe, primarily merged with Pequot in late 17th century[1]
Regions with significant populations
Hartford County, Connecticut, U.S.
Languages
an Algonquian language
Religion
Indigenous religion
Related ethnic groups
Pequot, Tunxis[1]
The Podunk were a Native American people who spoke an Algonquian Quiripi language and lived primarily in what is now known as Hartford County, Connecticut, United States. English colonists adopted use of a Nipmuc dialect word for the territory of this people.
The Podunk are likely the Hoccanum people.[2]
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^Hodge, Frederick Webb, ed. (1912). Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico: A–M, Vol 30, Part 1. Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office. p. 555.
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