Where are the Children? Erasure of Pequot Families by Failing to Use our Babies' Names
“One way of minimizing our humanity is to not allow us to be full human beings and also love and have relationships.” -Tessa Thompson, 2020
Michele Scott
Fagins, Lucretia, 1805 - 1877
Lucretia Fagins was born circa 1805 near her tribe’s land, the Mashantucket (Western) Pequot reservation in what is currently defined as southeastern Connecticut. Today, the reservation is in Mashantucket, CT, adjacent to Ledyard, North Stonington, and Preston, CT. Over the course of her life, Lucretia participated in tribal affairs and raised multiple children with her traditions. Both of her marriages were to Pequot men and she would ultimately become the matriarch of several larger Pequot families.