While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
here. So we thought we'd share a few of our gardening sites appropriate
for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
ready to diet so that you can fit back into that bathing suit this summer!
Niantic (contr. of Naďantukq-ut
'at a point of land on a [tidal] river or estuary.' Trumbull) An
Algonquain tribe formerly occupying the coast of Rhode Island form
Narragansett bay to about the Connecticut state line. Their
principal village, Wekapaug, was on the great pond near Charlestown.
They were closely connected with the Narraganset forming practically one
tribe with them.
By refusing to join in King Philip's war in 1675 they
preserved their territory and tribal organization and at the close of the
war the Narraganset who submitted to the English were placed with the
Niantic under Ninigret, and the whole body thenceforth took the name of
Narraganset.
