Nipmuc
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The Nipmuc or Nipmuck people are an Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands, who historically spoke an Eastern Algonquian language. Their historic territory Nippenet, "the freshwater pond place," is in central Massachusetts and nearby parts of Connecticut and Rhode Island.
Congressman John Olver meets with a representative of the Nipmuc Nation during its bid for federal recognition.
American Indian baskets at the Danforth Museum in Framingham, Massachusetts
Monument to John Eliot in South Natick, site of the first Praying Plantation, or Praying town, in Massachusetts.
Depiction of the siege of Brookfield, Massachusetts during King Philip's War.
Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands
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Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands include Native American tribes and First Nation bands residing in or originating from a cultural area encompassing the northeastern and Midwest United States and southeastern Canada. It is part of a broader grouping known as the Eastern Woodlands. The Northeastern Woodlands is divided into three major areas: the Coastal, Saint Lawrence Lowlands, and Great Lakes-Riverine zones.
Joseph Brant, a Mohawk, depicted in a portrait by Charles Bird King, circa 1835
Three Lenape people, depicted in a painting by George Catlin in the 1860s