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Become a member Your membership helps support our mission to preserve protect and promote the rich history of Norwich CT. LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT STATEMENT With gratitude and humility the Norwich Historical Society acknowledges the Mohegan Tribe original stewards of the land where the City of Norwich now stands. In 1659 Chief Uncas of the Mohegan Tribe granted a 9 mile square to the English immigrants who had come to make a new home in southeastern Connecticut. Over the centuries that followed Uncas and his people were dispossessed of their lands including their sacred burial grounds in the area now known as Chelsea Parade.