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'''Robin Cassacinamon''' (died 1692) was a [[Pequot]] Indian government appointed by the [[United Colonies]].▼
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| name = Robin Cassacinamon
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| office = Governor and Sachem of the [[Pequot]]
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| term_start = 1655
| term_end = 1692
| birth_date = c.1620s
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| death_date = 1692
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| occupation = Tribal Chief, translator, soldier
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| allegiance = [[Pequot]]<br>[[New England Confederation]]
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| battles = [[King Phillip's War]]
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▲'''Robin Cassacinamon''' (
The New England colonies placed Cassacinamon under the authority of colonial ally [[Uncas]] of the [[Mohegan]] tribe following the [[Pequot War]] of 1637. In 1638, Cassacinamon became a servant in the home of [[John Winthrop]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Williams |first1=Roger |title=Correspondence of Roger Williams |date=1988 |publisher=Brown/Rhode Island Historical Society |isbn=978-0874513868 |pages=168–169}}</ref><ref name="Gronim">{{cite journal |last1=Gronim |first1=Sara S. |date=June 2011 |title=The Magus of Connecticut: How Taking Alchemy Seriously Changes Early New England History |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23014377 |journal=Reviews in American History |volume=39 |issue=2 |pages=246–253 |doi=10.1353/rah.2011.0081 |jstor=23014377 |s2cid=144170204 |access-date=23 October 2021|url-access=subscription }}</ref> in Boston where he learned English. He served as a translator, and he helped the Pequots to request to be under colonial authority rather than under Uncas. By the late 1640s Cassacinamon was with [[John Winthrop, Jr.]] in what is now [[New London, Connecticut|New London]].<ref>Shawn G. Wiemann, ''Lasting Marks: The Legacy of Robin Cassacinamon and the Survival of the Mashantucket Pequot Nation'' (University of New Mexico, Dissertation, 2011) http://digitalrepository.unm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1082&context=hist_etds</ref>
By 1655, the United Colonies appointed Cassacinamon to be governor of the Pequots in settlements at Nameaug ([[New London, Connecticut]]) and [[Noank, Connecticut|Noank]]. Cassacinamon executed [[Canonchet]] during [[King Philip's War]], and the colonies commended his service during the war.<ref>Shawn G. Wiemann, Lasting Marks: The Legacy of Robin Cassacinamon and the Survival of the Mashantucket Pequot Nation (University of New Mexico, Dissertation, 2011) http://digitalrepository.unm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1082&context=hist_etds</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://yipp.yale.edu/bio/bibliography/cassasinamon-robin-1692|title = Cassasinamon, Robin, - 1692 | Native Northeast Portal}}</ref> He used his negotiation skills to secure the return of some tribal lands, resulting in the establishment of an approximately 3,000-acre reservation in 1665-1666.<ref name="HistoryNews">{{cite journal |date=Summer 1998 |title=High Stakes History: The Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/42655595 |journal=History News |volume=53 |issue=3 |pages=16–19 |jstor=42655595 |access-date=23 October 2021}}</ref><ref name="Lawlor">{{cite journal |last1=Lawlor |first1=Mary |date=March 2005 |title=Identity in Mashantucket |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40068254 |journal=American Quarterly |volume=57 |issue=1 |pages=153–177 |doi=10.1353/aq.2005.0011 |jstor=40068254 |s2cid=144604985 |access-date=23 October 2021|url-access=subscription }}</ref> He remained sachem until his death in 1692.<ref name="Logo">{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s)/no by-line.--> |date=8 February 2017 |title=Foxwoods' Logo Tells the Story of the Tribe |url=https://issuu.com/theresident5/docs/issue_01_08_17_foxwoods/29 |work=The Resident |location=Pawcatuck, Connecticut |access-date=23 October 2021}}</ref>
In the late 20th Century, the [[Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation]] adopted Cassacinamon's [[Ligature (writing)|ligature]] as part of their tribal seal.<ref name="Silberman">{{cite journal |last1=Silberman |first1=Neil Asher |date=July–August 1991 |title=Pequot Country |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41765985 |journal=Archaeology |volume=44 |issue=4 |pages=34–39 |jstor=41765985 |access-date=23 October 2021}}</ref><ref name="Logo"></ref>
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