Narragansett
Americannoun
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Narragansetts,
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Narragansett
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a member of a North American Indian tribe of the Algonquian family formerly located in Rhode Island but now almost extinct.
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an Algonquian language, the language of the Narragansett Indians.
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a town in S Rhode Island: includes a resort Narragansett Pier.
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a member of a North American Indian people formerly living in Rhode Island
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the language of this people, belonging to the Algonquian family
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Paddling up Narragansett Bay, a kayaker spotted a strange new development between the Quidnessett Country Club and the sea: a heaping pile of rocks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
In Lillie’s second mystery, tensions rise between Rhode Island’s Narragansett tribe and the Founders Society’s Mayflower descendants after 300-year-old sacred remains are unearthed, then vanish from a Society campground.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2025
This is even more true regarding the Yarmouth Stone and the Narragansett Runestone, discovered in Nova Scotia and Rhode Island in 1812 and 1984, respectively.
From Slate ● Nov. 11, 2023
Quahogs will traditionally start spawning in mid-June first in coves along Narragansett Bay and progress through the season.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 24, 2023
Similarly, groups like the Wampanoag, Narragansett, and Haude- nosaunee in eastern North America also thought at first that Europeans might have supernatural qualities.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
The Narragansetts are thankful, the tribe’s medicine man and historic preservation officer John Brown III told The Boston Globe.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 27, 2021
His traditional enemies, the Narragansetts, held the opposite shore.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
The survivors were handed over to the Mohegans and Narragansetts, the Pequots’ traditional enemies who fought with the English.
From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2017
If one was ruined, “It would not only be a loss to the Narragansetts, it would be a loss to the world,” said John Brown, the tribe’s historic preservation officer.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 9, 2015
The first English that planted there, set down not far from the Narragansetts Bay, and called their Colony Plimouth, since old Plimouth, An.
From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by A Sexton of the Old School
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