Massachusett
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The Massachusett are an Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands whose historic homeland encompassed much of present-day Greater Boston in eastern Massachusetts, particularly the watersheds of
Great Blue Hill, namesake of the Massachusett tribe, in Norfolk County, Massachusetts
Neponset River in Dorchester, within historic homelands of the Massachusett
The index and first page of Genesis from Eliot's translation of the Bible into the Natick speech of Massachusett in 1663, the Mamusse Wunneetupanatamwe Up-Biblum God.
The "Three Sisters" of maize, beans and squash
Massachusett language
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The Massachusett language is an Algonquian language of the Algic language family that was historically spoken by several peoples of eastern coastal and southeastern Massachusetts. The language went ou
Massachusett
…Their economy combined the cultivation of maize, beans and squash with fishing, shellfishing, hunting and the collection of wild plants. They spoke Massachusett, an Eastern Algonquian language also used in several neighboring Indigenous communities. As some of the first people to make contact with European…
Eliot Indian Bible 1663
The "Old Indian Meeting House" in Mashpee (built in 1684) is the United States's oldest Native American church. Although Christianity destroyed traditional spiritual practices, the translation of the Bible helped the Wampanoag language survive.
John Eliot preaching to Indians
Metacomet ("King Philip") led Native Americans against the colonists; his defeat ended local Native autonomy in New England.