Together with providing documentation and working to regain tribal status, the Paugusset filed land rights claims against the state, saying the state did not have the authority to manage or sell land on their behalf.
Initiated by Chief Big Eagle, the Paugussetts originally had claimed legal rights to 700000acre of land running from Orange/Woodbridge in New Haven County though Fairfield County to Greenwich and extending North into Eastern Litchfield County up to the Massachusetts border, though these large claims have since been dropped [REF].