Nipmuc
Sign in to saveThe Nipmuc or Nipmuck people are an Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands, who historically spoke an Eastern Algonquian language, probably the Loup language. Their historic territory Nippenet, meaning 'the freshwater pond place', is in central Massachusetts and nearby parts of Connecticut and Rhode Island.
Key facts
- Ethnic group.group
- Nipmuc Tribe
- Ethnic group.image
- File:Hepsibeth Hemenway.jpg
- Ethnic group.caption
- Portrait of Hepsibeth Hemenway, a Nipmuc woman from Worcester, Massachusetts, 1830
- Ethnic group.population
- Contemporary people claiming Nipmuc descent: 354 Chaubunagungamaug, (2002)526 Hassanamisco Nipmuc (2004).Possible total 1,400 (2008)
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- Central Massachusetts (), northeast Connecticut (), and northwest Rhode Island ()
- Ethnic group.rels
- Traditionally Animism (Manito), Christianity.
- Ethnic group.langs
- English, likely formerly Nipmuc and Massachusett
- Ethnic group.related c
- Narragansett, Shawomet, Eastern Niantic peoples
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22 sectionsContents
- Name
- Language
- Tribal divisions
- Legal status
- State recognition
- Federal recognition efforts
- Colonial-era history
- 17th century
- Indian plantations
- King Philip's War
- 18th century
- Wars
- Emigration
- Modern history
- 19th century
- Intermarriage
- Censuses
- 20th and 21st centuries
- Notable Nipmuc people
- See also
- References
- External links
The Nipmuc or Nipmuck people are an Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands, who historically spoke an Eastern Algonquian language, probably the Loup language. Their historic territory Nippenet, meaning 'the freshwater pond place', is in central Massachusetts and nearby parts of Connecticut and Rhode Island.
The Nipmuc Tribe had contact with traders and fishermen from Europe prior to the colonization of the Americas. The first recorded contact with Europeans was in 1630, when John Acquittamaug took maize to sell to the starving colonists of Boston, Massachusetts. After the colonists encroached on their land, negotiated fraudulent land sales and introduced legislation designed to encourage further European settlement, many Nipmucs joined Metacomet's war, known as King Philip's War, in 1675, though they were unable to defeat the colonists. Many Nipmuc were held captive on Deer Island in Boston Harbor and died of disease and malnutrition, while others were executed or sold into slavery in the West Indies.