The Potatuck were a Native American

Native Americans in the United States

Native Americans in the United States are the indigenous peoples in North America within the boundaries of the present-day continental United States, parts of Alaska, and the island state of Hawaii. They are composed of numerous, distinct tribes, states, and ethnic groups, many of which survive as...

 tribe that existed during and prior to colonial times in western Connecticut

Connecticut

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, USA. They were a sub-group of the Paugussett Nation and lived in what is present day Newtown

Newtown, Connecticut

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, Woodbury

Woodbury, Connecticut

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 and Southbury

Southbury, Connecticut

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. They were a farming and fishing

Fishing

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 culture, cultivating corn, squash, beans and tobacco and fishing in freshwater and possibly traveling to the coast to fish in summer months.

They eventually amalgamated with the Weantinock

Weantinock

The Weantinock were a Native American tribe that existed during and prior to colonial times in western Connecticut, USA. They were a sub-group of the Paugussett Nation and lived in what is present day New Milford...

 and other indigenous people to form Schaghticokes

Schaghticoke (tribe)

The Schaghticoke are a Native American tribe of the Eastern Woodlands consisting of descendants of Mahican , Potatuck , Weantinock, Tunxis, Podunk, and other people indigenous to what is now Connecticut, New York, and Massachusetts. They amalgamated after encroachment of white settlers on their...

in western Connecticut.