Revenge of the Pequots: How a Small Native American Tribe Created the World's Most Profitable CasinoThe Mashantucket Pequots have had a long and proud history, enduring for centuries even after colonists and historians believed them to have been exterminated by the British in 1637. By the early 1970s, however, the legacy of their generations rested on the shoulders of a single elderly woman, upon whose death the Pequots' reservation would fall into government hands. Her grandson, Richard Skip Hayward, and other relatives responded to her pleas and