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Lucy Occom Tantaquidgeon, her daughter Lucy Tantaquidgeon Teecomwas, and her granddaughter Cynthia Teecomas Hoscoat deeded a plot of land on Mohegan Hill in 1831 to tribal ownership for the building of the Mohegan Congregational Church. The church sits on a half-acre of continuously owned tribal land. Proving the Mohegan Tribe’s ownership of that plot of land and proving the female line of leadership that began with Lucy Occom was critical to the Tribe’s successful petition for reinstatement of federal recognition in 1994. USDA photo by Bob Nichols.
20131118-OC-RBN-0992
Lucy Occom Tantaquidgeon, her daughter Lucy Tantaquidgeon Teecomwas, and her granddaughter Cynthia Teecomas Hoscoat deeded a plot of land on Mohegan Hill in 1831 to tribal ownership for the building of the Mohegan Congregational Church. The church sits on a half-acre of continuously owned tribal land. Proving the Mohegan Tribe’s ownership of that plot of land and proving the female line of leadership that began with Lucy Occom was critical to the Tribe’s successful petition for reinstatement of federal recognition in 1994. USDA photo by Bob Nichols.