Present Day
The tribe lives in Colchester, Connecticut, where it has a 106-acre (0.43 km2) reservation, and also has a 1⁄4-acre (0.0010 km2) reservation in Nichols section of Trumbull, Connecticut. The Nichols reservation is considered to be the oldest continuing reservation in Connecticut and the smallest in the US.
In 2009, a state court dismissed a challenge to their heritage, refusing to eject members of the Golden Hill Paugussett Tribe and their chief from reservations in Trumbull and Colchester.
Read more about this topic: Golden Hill Paugussett Indian Nation
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