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Nar·ra·gan·sett
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wampanoag
a member of a once-powerful North American Indian people who inhabited the area east of Narragansett Bay from Rhode Island to Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket at the time of the Pilgrim settlement. -
aquidneck island
an island in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island. -
canonchet
(Nanuntenoo) died 1676, Narragansett leader: executed by colonists. -
canonicus
c1565–1647, Narragansett leader: yielded Rhode Island to Roger Williams 1636. -
fall river
a seaport in SE Massachusetts, on an arm of Narragansett Bay. -
menhaden
any marine clupeid fish of the genus Brevoortia, especially B. tyrannus, resembling a shad but with a more compressed body, common along the eastern coast of the U.S., and used for making oil and fertilizer.