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Richard Arthur Hayward
Richard "Skip" Arthur Hayward (born November 28, 1947), served as tribal chairman of the Mashantucket Pequot Indian Tribe from 1975 until November 1, 1998.
Kenneth M. Reels succeeded him as chairman.
Hayward was born on November 28, 1947, in New London, Connecticut, one of 10 children. He married Aline Aurore Champoux and held a variety of jobs before running a clam shack called the Sea Mist Haven near the Mystic Seaport.
Before becoming the tribal chairman, he worked as a pipefitter at General Dynamics Electric Boat and lived in Stonington, Connecticut.
Hayward's grandmother Elizabeth George Plouffe died in May 1973. She was the last member of the Pequot Indian tribe to live on the 214-acre (87 ha) Pequot Indian reservation in the 1970s. She was the only person living on the reservation, so the land passed back to the State of Connecticut when she died.
In 1975, Hayward met with Thomas Tureen, the head of the Coalition of Eastern Native Americans (CENA), who helped him initiate a land claim on his family's behalf. Tureen and Hayward also discussed obtaining federal recognition from the federal government for his group. In 1976, Connecticut Governor Ella Grasso gave state tribal recognition to Hayward's organization, the Western Pequots. In 1979, Hayward and the Western Pequots received a $12,000 grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to create an economic development plan for the reservation. The group then received a $1.2 million loan from HUD in 1979 for the construction of 15 houses. Hayward appointed his cousin John Holder (Pequot) as executive director of the housing project.
In 1982, Hayward and his associates worked to achieve federal recognition of the Mashantucket Pequot Indian Tribe. Instead of undergoing the system processed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs's Office of Indian Affairs, they gained recognition through U.S. Congress's passage of the Mashantucket Pequot Settlement Act in 1983.
They were represented at the Congressional hearing concerning their proposed settlement bill by Tureen and a lawyer named Jackson King. King worked out a deal with Tureen that, in the proposed settlement bill, they would also ask the Federal government to give them enough money to buy out the landowners whom King was representing. That bill was approved by the Senate in February 1983.
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Richard Arthur Hayward
Richard "Skip" Arthur Hayward (born November 28, 1947), served as tribal chairman of the Mashantucket Pequot Indian Tribe from 1975 until November 1, 1998.
Kenneth M. Reels succeeded him as chairman.
Hayward was born on November 28, 1947, in New London, Connecticut, one of 10 children. He married Aline Aurore Champoux and held a variety of jobs before running a clam shack called the Sea Mist Haven near the Mystic Seaport.
Before becoming the tribal chairman, he worked as a pipefitter at General Dynamics Electric Boat and lived in Stonington, Connecticut.
Hayward's grandmother Elizabeth George Plouffe died in May 1973. She was the last member of the Pequot Indian tribe to live on the 214-acre (87 ha) Pequot Indian reservation in the 1970s. She was the only person living on the reservation, so the land passed back to the State of Connecticut when she died.
In 1975, Hayward met with Thomas Tureen, the head of the Coalition of Eastern Native Americans (CENA), who helped him initiate a land claim on his family's behalf. Tureen and Hayward also discussed obtaining federal recognition from the federal government for his group. In 1976, Connecticut Governor Ella Grasso gave state tribal recognition to Hayward's organization, the Western Pequots. In 1979, Hayward and the Western Pequots received a $12,000 grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to create an economic development plan for the reservation. The group then received a $1.2 million loan from HUD in 1979 for the construction of 15 houses. Hayward appointed his cousin John Holder (Pequot) as executive director of the housing project.
In 1982, Hayward and his associates worked to achieve federal recognition of the Mashantucket Pequot Indian Tribe. Instead of undergoing the system processed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs's Office of Indian Affairs, they gained recognition through U.S. Congress's passage of the Mashantucket Pequot Settlement Act in 1983.
They were represented at the Congressional hearing concerning their proposed settlement bill by Tureen and a lawyer named Jackson King. King worked out a deal with Tureen that, in the proposed settlement bill, they would also ask the Federal government to give them enough money to buy out the landowners whom King was representing. That bill was approved by the Senate in February 1983.