'The land is the culture'

Falls Mountain gorge, on the Housatonic River, site of a 17th-Century Paugussett fishing village.

“Ours is a land culture. In fact, the land is the culture.’’

— Aurelius Piper (Big Eagle) (1916-2008), chief (1959-2008) of the Golden Hill Paugussett Nation, centered in Trumbull, Conn.