Narragansett is an English corruption of Nanhigganeuck, their actual name meaning "people of the small point." The Dutch used the shortened form of Nahican.
Location Narragansett is located in Narragansett Bay and western Rhode Island the grand sachem who usually resided in the largest village. Their villages of medium-sized longhouses were usually large energetic and located on the islands on the islands of Narragansett Bay. They farmed extremely large fields of corn,beans,and squash. Narragansett is expert with the canoe, their diet was appendage by hunting with fish and other seafood being an important part of it.
Population Narragansett’s population was about 10,000 people by the year 1610 but then by the year 1674 the population surprisingly dropped to 5,000 people. Narragansett lost about 20% of their population by a single battle with the English in the year 1675. Most of them died because of massacre and most because of starvation. By 1682 less than 500 peple remained alive. By 2010 Narragansett’s population increased to 15,868 people especially in the summer Narragansett had twice the more people about 34,000.
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Narragansett was an Algonkian language closely related to mohegan and massachusett some linguists consider Narragansett a dialect of one of those two languages, while others consider it a distinct language. Some example of words are:
Narragansett Translation
Location Narragansett is located in Narragansett Bay and western Rhode Island the grand sachem who usually resided in the largest village. Their villages of medium-sized longhouses were usually large energetic and located on the islands on the islands of Narragansett Bay. They farmed extremely large fields of corn,beans,and squash. Narragansett is expert with the canoe, their diet was appendage by hunting with fish and other seafood being an important part of it.
Population Narragansett’s population was about 10,000 people by the year 1610 but then by the year 1674 the population surprisingly dropped to 5,000 people. Narragansett lost about 20% of their population by a single battle with the English in the year 1675. Most of them died because of massacre and most because of starvation. By 1682 less than 500 peple remained alive. By 2010 Narragansett’s population increased to 15,868 people especially in the summer Narragansett had twice the more people about 34,000.
Language …show more content…
Narragansett was an Algonkian language closely related to mohegan and massachusett some linguists consider Narragansett a dialect of one of those two languages, while others consider it a distinct language. Some example of words are:
Narragansett Translation