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Ninnimissinuok

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Ninnimissinuok is indigenous term, to refer to Native Americans of southern New England region.^[1]^[2] These people include the Pawtucket, Massachusett, Nipmuck, Pokanoket, Niantic, Mohegan and Pequot, as well as the people of western Connecticut and Long Island. This term, a variation of the Narragansett word Ninnimissinûwock, which means roughly 'people', connotes familiarity and shared identity.^[3]

The use of the term Ninnimissinuok does not imply, however, a homogeneity of social forms or motivations among the various groups so labeled. The region now known as southern New England was home to a complex variety of communities, sometimes grouped into larger polities, which can be divided into at least three basic ecological subregions: the coastal, the riverine and the uplands. Although sharing an underlying cosmology, similar languages, and a long history, the peoples living in each of these regions developed distinctive social and economic adaptations.^[2]

References

1. ^{{cite book |author=Trumbull James Hammond |title=Natick Dictionary |page=306 |year=1903 }}
2. ^¹{{cite book |author=Kathleen J. Bragdon |title=Native People Southern New England, 1500-1650 |pages=xi-xiii |year=1996 }}
3. ^{{cite book |author= Williams Roger |title=A Key into the Language of America |page=A3 |year=1643 }}

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