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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III INDIAN HISTORY DISTRIBUTION OF INDIAN TRIBES AT THE BEGINNING OF THE SIXTEENTH CEN- TURY NEW ENGLAND TRIBES THE MASSACHUSETT NARRAGANSETT NIP- MUCK THE PEQUOT WAR?THE WAMPANOAG KING PHILIP'S WAR THE PRAYING INDIANS INDIAN DEEDS TO THE LAND. Note?Indian names are spelled in various ways, every writer on the subject adopting the form best suited to his ideas. In this chapter the form used is that sanctioned by the United States Government and employed in the reports of the Bureau of Ethnology. NAME AND DISTRIBUTION When the first European explorers came to America they found here a race of copper-colored people. Believing that Columbus had opened the way to the eastern coast of Asia, and that the country was India, they gave these people the name of Indians. Their error regarding the geography of the earth has long since been corrected, but the name they conferred upon the natives still remains. . At the close of the Fifteenth Century, when the first explorations were made along the Atlantic Coast, this race was divided into groups or families, each of which was distinguished by certain physical and linguistic characteristics. The groups were subdivided into tribes, each of which was ruled by a chief. New England was in the territory occupied by the Algonquian family, the most numerous and powerful of all the groups, and numbered almost as many tribes as all the others combined. The Algonquian country may be described as a great triangle, roughly bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the east, and by lines drawn from the most northern point of Newfoundland and Cape Hatteras to the west- er n end of Lake Superior. The tribes with which the early settlers of the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonies came chiefly in contact, and which figured most conspic...
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