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Nipmuck

American  
[nip-muhk] / ˈnɪp mʌk /

noun

plural

Nipmucks,

plural

Nipmuck
  1. a member of an Algonquian Indian people living in the vicinity of Worcester, Mass.


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Last year, 19 tribes sent representatives, including the Miwok and Maidu, from central California; the Pawnee, from Kansas and Nebraska; the Powhatan, from Virginia; and the Nipmuck, from Massachusetts.

From Washington Post

Within what is now Grafton stood the Nipmuck Indian village of Hassanamesit.

From Project Gutenberg

The Nipmuck Indians were a powerful tribe, consisting of many petty clans spread over the whole of the interior of Massachusetts.

From Project Gutenberg

In this fortress, within the territorial limits of the Nipmuck Indians, he also assembled a feeble train of women and children, the fragments of his slaughtered families.

From Project Gutenberg

The Nipmuck tribe, then quite powerful, occupied the region now included in the southeast corner of Worcester county.

From Project Gutenberg