- The
Nipmuc or
Nipmuck people are an
Indigenous people of the
Northeastern Woodlands, who
historically spoke an
Eastern Algonquian language.
Their historic...
-
bilingual catechism by the
English missionary Abraham Pierson in 1658.
Coweset is only
attested in a
handful of
lexical items that bear
clear dialectal...
- M****achusetts.
Ethnicity M****achusett, Wôpanâak (Wampanoag), Pawtucket,
Coweset, Nauset,
other Algonquian peoples of New
England and Long Island, English...
- 'puppy,' more
common word is náhtiá. ^2
Possibly Williams'
recording of the
Coweset dialect. 'Abenakian syncope' was an
areal feature that had
spread from...
- in H. R.
Schoolcraft 160 NE
Woodlands New
England Shawomets &
Cowsetts (
Cowesets) 3,000 1500
Capers Jones 161
Southwest Mexican Cession Alchedoma 3,000...
- 1661, the
English theologian Roger Williams purchased the area from the "
Coweset and Nipmucks", and in a
letter referred to
modern day
Woonsocket as Niswosakit...
-
their settlement "followed the
Three Mile
River to its confluence… at the
Coweset (Wading) and
Rumford Rivers and the
thick swamp between them,” attacking...
- not only the M****achusett, but also the Pawtucket, Wampanoag,
Nauset and
Coweset peoples. It was
mutually intelligible with the
other Southern New England...
-
isolated Wampanoag sub-group,
inhabited the
extreme ends of Cape Cod; the
Coweset of
northern Rhode Island; and the
Pawtucket which covered most of northeastern...
- the
Nauset (possibly a
Wampanoag sub-group) of the
outer Cape and the
Coweset of north-western
Rhode Island, and
likely spread as a
common second language...
