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Explore Native American tribes beginning with M, including well-known nations like the Mohawk and Muscogee, as well as smaller or extinct groups. Each Tribe M index listing connects you to in-depth information about history, governance, and traditions.

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Mashantucket Pequot Indian Tribe

The Mashantucket Pequot Indian Tribe is an Eastern Woodland people with traditional homelands in what is now known as Southeastern Connecticut. As the first native people within the borders of the continental United States to suffer an attempted genocide by Puritan Colonists in 1637, they have one of America's oldest Indian reservations, established in 1666.

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Match-e-be-nash-she-wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians of Michigan

Federal recognition of the Match-e-be-nash-she-wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians of Michigan became effective on August 23, 1999. The tribe says they are a body of mixed-blood Chippewa, Ottawa, and Pottawatomi who trace their descent from principal Potawatomi chief, Match-e-be-nash-she-wish. 

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