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Eastern
Niantic Indian Tribe History
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.
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Handbook
of American Indians, 1906
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