Niantic Indians
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Name (Latin)
Niantic Indians
Other forms of name
Nehântick Indians
Nehantucket Indians
See Also From tracing topical name
Algonquian Indians
Indians of North America Connecticut
Indians of North America Rhode Island
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q1464793
Library of congress:
sh2013002869
Sources of Information
- Work cat.: 2013040957: Fisher, J.A. Ninigret, sachem of the Niantics and Narrangansetts, 2014:ECIP galleys, chapter 1 (the relationship of Ninigret's Niantics to the Narragansetts might be characterized as a sachemship within a tribe)
- Wikipedia, viewed October 18, 2013(The Niantic, or in their own language, the Nehântick or Nehantucket, were a tribe of New England Native Americans who were living in Connecticut and Rhode Island during the early colonial period; an Algonquian speaking people; by 1870, the Nehantics were declared extinct by the state; in 1998, about 35 Connecticut families claiming Nehantic descent incorporated as a nonprofit association, the Nehantic Tribe and Nation)