Mohegan

But Minnesota now is the only undefeated team left.

They're the last of the Mohegans standing undefeated.

And this was ugly.

Before we get to what happened today with the Colts, just talk about this game first.

in manufactories, for which the fine water power of the neighborhood furnishes peculiar facilities.

As a birthplace of distinguished individuals, Norwich has produced Mrs. Sigourney, the sweetest of American poetesses, and it stands upon the natal ground and possessions of the celebrated Uncas, chief of the Mohegans.

The burial place of the kings of this warlike tribe is still to be seen here.

no spot could have been selected with more felicity than that on which uncas formerly lived it is a high point of land commanding a noble and extensive view of the thames here a large river and of the country on both sides it was therefore well fitted for the discovery of an enemy's approach and furnished every convenience to hostile excursions at the same time it bordered on a never-failing supply of provisions furnished by the scale and shell-fish, with which both the river and the neighboring ocean have ever been richly stored.

His dread of Sassacus was, however, so great that when Captain Mason marched against the Pequods he did not believe him to be serious in his professed design of attacking that terrible nation.

nor did he even engage in the conflict until after Mason and his little band of heroes had stormed the Pequod fortress.

Upon the death of Sassacus, Uncas became the sachem of the remaining Pequods, as well as of the Mohegans.

In this character he claimed, perhaps rightfully enough, as there was no other acknowledged heir, all the territory which had been possessed by that tribe.

So I started recording it.

I recorded it and only to find out after about six months of research that it was Mohegan, like a Native American language that is not written.

And here's what's crazy.

I took what I said to a person who was fluent in Mohegan.

And he goes, oh yeah, I can tell you what you're saying.

You're saying it in this dialect.

have physical DNA of our body.

We have soul DNA of our soul.

Okay, go ahead.

In 1643, Mohegan Chief Uncas executed Pequot Chief Mayantinoma right by this rock.

The slain Pequot's body was also never seen again.

Today, the cave is still there and is known as Squaw Cave after Oney and her story.

Yeah.

Because that was a tribe.

So it's a little bit fuzzy why this, like, you don't call a town like Mohegan or Pequot.

Right, right, right.

And furthest from that opening, from that door, stood the people whose land New England's meetinghouse were built on.

Before dawn, May 26, 1637, a force from Connecticut and Massachusetts under John Mason and John Underhill, with Mohegan and Narragansett allies, surrounded the fortified Pequot town near the Mystic River and set it on fire.

Underhill published his own account in London the next year.

There were, he wrote, about 400 souls in the fort, and not above five of them escaped out of our hands.

We had sufficient light from the word of God for our proceedings.

The colonists' own allies saw it differently.

When the fight was over, Underhill recorded the Narragansett and Mohegan warriors cried out against the English way of war because it is too furious and slays too many men.

Surviving Pequots were killed or enslaved.

They opened their doors to the public on October 12, 1996, and 30 years on, they're one of two casino resorts in the state of Connecticut.

We catch up with Jeff Hamilton, the president and general manager of Mohegan Sun, as they celebrate 30 years of a world at play.

This is Connecticut Eats This Week.

Hello, I'm Brian Scott Smith.

It's been 30 years since Mohegan Sun opened their doors to the public here in the state of Connecticut and from around the world.

And in that time, a who's who of celebrities, singers, former presidents and countless other people, including you and me, have walked through their doors.

They are the slightly younger of the two casinos in the state, but both of them are the largest casinos outside of Las Vegas.

Mohegan Sun is owned and operated by the Mohegan Tribal Nation.

But because the Comets are, were an existing franchise, they were the, the WNBA's first dynasty, they have such rich existing history, I really worry that the Sun will not be incorporated into that history.

Um, and the m- the, the Orlando Miracle as well, right? Who the Mohegan Tribe bought- ...

that bought the Sun from, you know, and rebranded them.

And so it's not really a continuous line, and I do worry that celebrating the history of the Comets returning is really just gonna erase the history of these other franchises that existed in its place.

But then they also allowed places like Connecticut, which didn't have an NBA team, to allow to have, you know, independent ownership come and bring a team to that, that location.

And so that's a really big aspect, and a lot of the fans who followed the Sun were really drawn to the independent ownership aspect of the team.

They liked, you know, they're owned by the Mohegan Tribe, the first Native-owned pro sports team.

They liked that their money was going back to, you know, a Native tribe.

Already am.

Folks, imagine if African Americans were the ones who received a casino in Foxwoods and in Mohegan.

Received a casino?

Yeah, let's say-

I'm just saying, let's say-

Mm-hmm

... okay, Mohegan and Foxwoods were, I don't know, Quanisha and Raheem Resorts.

Whatever they be.