单词	Pequot
释义	Pequot /ˈpiːkwɒt / noun (plural same or Pequots) 1A member of an American Indian people of southern New England.With the advent of war, Plymouth gained support from New England's other colonies and from Mohegans, Pequots, and many Christian Indians.... They also sought to help Pequots and other Indians recover from a lifetime of negative stereotypes about ‘savages’ in classrooms, museums, and popular culture. The history of the Pequots, like the history of the Chippewa that her novels relate, cannot be told as a single story along clean lines. 2 [mass noun] The extinct Algonquian language of the Pequot. adjective Relating to the Pequot or their language.During the Pequot War, the colonists' Narragansett and Mohegan allies offered Pequot heads as gifts.... The four-lobed medallion is another symbolic motif often found on Mohegan and Pequot baskets. With Mohegan and Narragansett support, the English attacked the Pequot town of Mystic on 26 May 1637. Origin From Narragansett paquatanog 'destroyers'.
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