Narragansett

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. Language…

Throughout my four years of high school, the seaside community of Narragansett, Rhode Island, has encouraged and nurtured the growth of its youthful inhabitants as students and individuals. The supportive environment and abundant opportunities available for students to pursue their passions and help others consequently benefits the community as a whole. As an athlete, and more specifically, a runner, I have aspired to motivate and encourage young athletes to enjoy the fun and friendships that…

Global warming, pollution, crime, politics, and the economy. These are all examples of problems that every state faces, but there are solutions as well. In this report, I will be talking about 3 issues that Rhode Island is currently dealing with, and some solutions that the government and local people have come up with. I will also explain why these issues are such a big deal, and how they have affected the state. The first one, is pollution in Narragansett Bay, which is probably the biggest…

Narragansett Brewing Company Case: Build a Brewery Using the factor rating method, I recommend Mark to lease Building A as the to decide which facility Mark should use to best meet Narragansett’s current and future needs, I advise Mark to use Building A for the location of his keg-only brewery. Please look at the following factor rating method chart where I weighted important factors of the supposed brewery and gave each building a score between 0 and 100 based on the given aspect being graded.…

It is about the feeling that emanates from a place as a combination of the physical environment and the surrounding community that produces a feeling of place. A place encapsulates an entire community of people and the folklore that is associated within the place. One must embrace their surroundings in order to get the full feeling of being from a place. I consider my place to be the state of Rhode Island. I grew up in that area and and connected with the people neighboring me and got in…

attacked the indigenous people and invaded their villages. The Puritans burned the Pequots village to the ground which caused the majority of the members to die. The rest of the Pequots were haunted down, killed by sword, or sold into slavery. Only a few escaped from the english settlers and those who remained volunteered themselves as slaves so they were not killed. Before King Philips War, relationships between the english settlers and natives began to dwindle. One potential cause of the war…

outpost at Saybrook Fort at the mouth of the Connecticut River. The longest confrontation of the Pequot War and in revenge for Endicott's attack on the Manisses and Pequot villages, the Pequot tried to sieze Saybrook Fort. The Pequot attacked soliders and work parties who wandered too far from the fort, destroyed English cornfields and cattle , and burned werehouse used to store trade goods. Through the spring, Pequot soldiers tried to cut off all river traffic to and from the upriver…

But instead of the native style of warfare, which took hostages, but had a few casualties, the Europeans massacred the Native Americans, including women and children. These terror tactics shocked the First Nation people. This is one of those examples of greed. The settlers wanted all the land and the natives were probably so fed up. First the settlers come, then they force their religion on them, than they attack them. Captain John Underhill wrote about the Pequot War of 1637 in his News from…

white enemies. He helped them by writing the Rhode Island Royal Charter. Instead of forcefully taking land from the Indians like most white settlers, Williams purchased the land from the Indians. Roger Williams ideas in founding Rhode Island showed an acceptance of others by his diplomacy and coexistence with the Indians, his purchasing of Indian lands and by his writing of the Rhode Island Royal Charter. Instead of taking the lands away from Indians forcefully like the rest of the colonies,…

lives required official management. Further, these officials redesignated native people as "Negro" or "black" in the written record, preparing the way for tribal "extinction." Native people, in contrast, often maintained a sense of their identity, understood that local government sometimes conflicted with their own best interests, and maneuvered around "the system" to their own advantage. For instance, in 1675, in the heat of a regional war with native peoples, New England colonists killed…