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    The Narragansett people are an Algonquian American Indian tribe from Rhode Island. Today, Narragansett people are enrolled in the federally recognized...
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    Narragansett /ˌnærəˈɡænsɪt/ is an Algonquian language formerly spoken in most of what is today Rhode Island by the Narragansett people. It was closely...
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  • Look up Narragansett in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Narragansett may refer to: Narragansett people, an indigenous people of Rhode Island, USA Narragansett...
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    settlers arrived in southern Rhode Island in 1636, the Niantic and Narragansett peoples were closely related, both in terms of sociopolitics and family groups...
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    Narragansett is a town in Washington County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 14,532 at the 2020 census. However, during the summer months...
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    Narragansett Bay is a bay and estuary on the north side of Rhode Island Sound covering 147 square miles (380 km2), 120.5 square miles (312 km2) of which...
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    Miantonomoh (category Narragansett people)
    or Miantonomi, was a chief of the Narragansett people of New England Indians. He was a nephew of the Narragansett grand sachem, Canonicus (died 1647)...
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  • blow to the Narragansett tribe during the period directly following the massacre. However, much like the Pequot, the Narragansett people continue to live...
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    Philip's War between the colonial militia of New England and the Narragansett people in December 1675. It was fought near the villages of Kingston and...
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    blow to the Narragansett tribe during the period directly following the massacre. However, much like the Pequot, the Narragansett people continue to live...
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  • Cautantowwit (category Deities of the indigenous peoples of North America)
    traditional religion of the Narragansett people. Cautantowwit was one of a pantheon of deities observed by the Narragansett, though all were ultimately...
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  • Joseph Fish (category People from Plymouth County, Massachusetts)
    among the Narragansett people is discussed in a study of the history of mixed marriages, "Miscegenation and Acculturation in the Narragansett Country of...
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    Canonicus (category Narragansett people)
    Canonicus (c. 1565 – June 4, 1647) was a chief of the Narragansett people. He was wary of the colonial settlers, but he ultimately befriended Roger Williams...
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  • the pond in which many Narragansett people warriors died. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Narragansett Pond Davis, William Thomas...
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    process also eliminates vitamin C content. In North America, the Narragansett people of the Algonquian nation in the regions of New England appeared to...
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    with two Sachems of the Narragansett Tribe, Canonicus and Miantonomoh, establishing the boundaries between the Narragansett Tribe and the Colony of Rhode...
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    Mohegans, and the Eastern Niantics, who allied with the Narragansetts. In 1632, indigenous people (likely Western Niantics associated with the Pequots)...
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    Plantations. The land was first owned by the Narragansett Indians, which led to the name of the town of Narragansett, Rhode Island. European settlement began...
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    term Massachusett in 1616. Narragansett people called the tribe Massachêuck. The historic territory of the Massachusett people consisted mainly of the hilly...
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  • The Narragansett Runestone, also known as the Quidnessett Rock, is a 2.5 t (2,500 kg) slab of metasandstone located in Rhode Island, United States. It...
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    The Northern Narragansett Indian Tribe of Rhode Island is an unrecognized tribe in Rhode Island, founded by formerly enrolled members of the federally...
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    neighbors.[citation needed] The Algonquian peoples include and have included historical populations in: Narragansett of Rhode Island, United States Mohegan...
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    make the food. It is also claimed that johnnycakes were made by the Narragansett people as far back as the 1600s. From this culture came one of the main...
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    tributary to Greenwich Bay and nearby Narragansett Bay. The name Apponaug is a derivation of the Narragansett Indian word for "place of oysters". Indeed...
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    War (1675–77). New England offered bounties to white settlers and Narragansett people in 1675 during King Philip's War. By 1692, New France also paid their...
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  • "at the second outlet", or "between outlets" in the Narragansett language of the Narragansett people. Nausauket was a former American Indian village. By...
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  • Ella Sekatau (category Narragansett people)
    and ethnohistorian and medicine woman of the Narragansett Indian Nation. Instrumental in the Narragansett's federal recognition in 1983, she was a powerful...
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  • Loren Spears (category Narragansett people)
    Lorén M. Spears (Narragansett/Niantic) is an educator, essayist, artist, and two-term Tribal Councilwoman of the Narragansett Tribe in Providence, Rhode...
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  • founders and editors. Both were Narragansett tribal members. The newspaper came about because of the Narragansett people's need to retain their history and...
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    what were for nearly two centuries the reservation lands of the Narragansett people. The district covers 5,600 acres (23 km2) and is bounded by Route...
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