Gladys Tantaquidgeon
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Gladys Iola Tantaquidgeon was a Mohegan medicine woman, anthropologist, author, tribal council member, and elder based in Connecticut.
Gladys Tantaquidgeon
This village installation is an addition to the Tantaquidgeon Indian Museum
Fidelia Fielding
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Fidelia Ann Hoscott Fielding, also known as Dji'ts Bud dnaca, was the last-known speaker of the traditional Mohegan Pequot language. She was a daughter of Bartholomew Valentine Smith and Sarah A. Wyyo
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…elders. By age five, the tribal nanus chose her to be schooled in the traditions of Mohegan culture. One of her mentors was the Mohegan traditionalist Fidelia Fielding (1827–1908). From Fielding, she learned the ways of the makiawisug who guard the healing plants. Another mentor was her maternal aunt, Nanu Emma Fielding…
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