Ridgefield and Fairfield County’s Native Populations, Episode One: The Founding of Ridgefield

Learn about the original purchase of Ridgefield and the lasting influence of Native Americans in the area with Kate Mozier-Tichy, a Master’s candidate in Information and Library Sciences at Southern CT State University.

In future episodes, Kate will discuss:

• The Ramapough Tribe
• The Pequot War
• King Phillip’s War and later colonial warfare
• Native Americans and the Revolution

Further Reading

• Connecticut History
• Fairfield Museum and History Center
• The Institute of American Indian Studies
• Ramapough Lenape Nation
• tputáawii xúwii-pambíilak: an Eastern Woodland-apedia
• Yale’s New England Indian Papers Series