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28-650: Niantic may refer to: Niantic people , tribe of American Indians Niantic, Inc. , mobile app developer known for the mobile games Ingress and Pokémon Go Niantic Correctional Institution, now known as York Correctional Institution Ships [ edit ] Niantic (whaling vessel) , relic of San Francisco Gold Rush USS Niantic Victory , Victory ship later renamed USNS Watertown USS Niantic , US aircraft carrier later renamed HMS Ranee Places [ edit ] Niantic, Connecticut Niantic River Niantic, Illinois Topics referred to by

56-554: A Western Niantic community of 85 people, including 56 children, in the present-day village of Niantic. He sketched their wigwams and noted similarities between the design they used and those used by the Kickapoo . He further reported that 11 Niantic men had been killed between 1755-1761 while serving with colonial troops. By the end of the 1700s, the Niantic peoples had adopted many aspects of Yankee New England culture , including adopting

84-651: A haughty answer. The Massachusetts Bay Colony then declared war against him and put 270 infantry and 40 horsemen under the command of Major Simon Willard . Willard's instructions were to go to Ninigret's quarters, demand the tribute, and insist that he end the war against the Long Island Indians. On the approach of the troops, Ninigret fled to a distant swamp and was not pursued, but the Pequots who had been under his control were transferred to Harmon Garrett to oversee. On October 13, 1660, Ninigret gave Pettequamscot to

112-585: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Niantic people The Niantic people were divided into eastern and western groups due to intrusions by the more numerous and powerful Pequots . The Western Niantics were subject to the Pequots and lived just east of the mouth of the Connecticut River , while the Eastern Niantics became very close allies to

140-645: The Colony of Rhode Island . He took no part in King Philip's War (1675-76) and so escaped the ruin which overtook the other tribes. His remains are said to be buried at a place near Charlestown, Rhode Island , called Burying Hill. The Puritans achieved little in trying to convert the Narragansetts and Niantics to Christianity. Roger Williams recorded his discouragement about it. Thomas Mayhew asked Ninigret to allow him to preach to his tribe, and he replied: "Go and make

168-610: The Narragansetts . It is likely that the name Nantucket is derived from the tribe's endonym , Nehantucket. The division of the Niantics became so great that the language of the eastern Niantics is classified as a dialect of Narragansett , while the language of the western Niantics is classified as Mohegan-Pequot . Today, only western Nehantics are known to exist, in the area of coastal New London County, Connecticut . The Niantics spoke an Algonquian Y-dialect similar to their neighbors

196-492: The English good first." Ninigret's daughter succeeded him as sachem. At her death, she was succeeded by her half-brother Ninigret, who granted a large portion of his people's lands to the colony of Rhode Island in 1709. This cession of land later created difficulties for the Niantics. The younger Ninigret died about 1722, leaving sons Charles Augustus and George. Charles Augustus died shortly afterward and left an infant son. Some of

224-576: The Indians in the Northeast (he was based in upstate New York). They made the case that the Niantic lands which Thomas Ninegret had sold were needed to support the families of men who had died serving the English king in the French and Indian War . In one letter to Johnson, they addressed the question of whether they had the authority to depose a sachem: “As it was in the power of the nation to put him in, we think it in

252-630: The Late Woodland period , they also dined on snake and turtle meat. Like the Narragansetts, the Niantics lived around salt ponds mainly in what is now coastal Rhode Island , in semi-permanent settlements or dispersed villages. Socially, the Niantic community valued both personal autonomy and group unity, with individual families responsible for providing for themselves. They crafted shell artworks but did not create too many projectile points, showing similar shared culture extending from southern Connecticut to Long Island to Martha's Vineyard. The arrival of

280-464: The Mohegan and Pequot peoples in the southeastern Connecticut region led to the split of the Niantic people into Western Niantic and Eastern Niantic divisions. By the time European settlers arrived in southern Rhode Island in 1636, the Niantic and Narragansett peoples were closely related, both in terms of sociopolitics and family groups. The Eastern Niantic population, led by Ninigret , lived primarily in

308-525: The Nehantic Tribe and Nation nonprofit association. They established a three-person governing board, researched their history more fully, and began the petition process of seeking recognition from the federal government as an Indian tribe. Ninigret Ninigret (also known as Juanemo according to Roger Williams ) (c. 1610 -1677 ) was a sachem of the eastern Niantic Indian tribe in New England at

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336-517: The Pequots, Mohegans , and Narragansetts in New England, and the Montauks on eastern Long Island. Prior to European colonization of their lands, the Niantics spent their summers fishing and digging the shellfish which were abundant there and for which the area is famous. They cultivated the Three Sisters : maize, beans, and squash. They also hunted, fished, and collected nuts, roots, and fruits. During

364-582: The Western Niantics by the colonists and their Indian allies; the roughly 100 surviving members of the Western Niantics merged into the Mohegans. Some members of the Mohegans can trace their ancestry back to the Niantics, especially in the vicinity of Lyme, Connecticut . Following King Philip's War (1675–1676), the Narragansetts were reduced in population from 5,000 to a few hundred, while Eastern Niantics were largely spared due to Ninigret's neutrality during

392-499: The areas of present-day Westerly, Rhode Island , and Charlestown, Rhode Island . Conflict developed between the Niantics and their colonial neighbors, with the English colonists conducting punitive military expeditions against the Niantics, resulting in massive destruction. The violence became more widespread on both sides of the conflict and degenerated into the Pequot War in 1637. This conflict resulted in almost total destruction of

420-906: The autumn of 1713, Christian missionaries had begun to try converting Eastern Niantics to Christianity, though they were met with resistance. In the 1720s, a more concentrated, organized effort began, but success was largely limited to those Eastern Niantics who had been taken as household servants and slaves by European families. Widespread interest in Christianity did not begin amongst the Western or Eastern Niantics until 1743, after which distinct congregations formed for each group. In 1733, Western Niantics travelled to Woodstock, Connecticut , from East Lyme, Connecticut , in order "to barter their skins and furs for powder, shot, rings, knives, cloth, pipes, tobacco, beads, lace, whistle and other commodities" with local merchants. In October 1761, Ezra Stiles encountered

448-652: The conflict. Surviving Narragansetts fled to the Eastern Niantics in such great numbers that the tribe became known as the Narragansetts. Eastern Niantics continued to lead the joined tribes; by 1679, Ninigret had been succeeded by his daughter Weunquest, who died circa 1686. Entering the 18th century, the Eastern Niantic-Narragansett community in Rhode Island was one of the largest in Southern New England, with 300-500 Eastern Niantics outnumbering

476-652: The dominant culture's religious beliefs, style of dress, and class system. In 1780, residents of New Shoreham, Rhode Island , voted to take Eastern Niantic-Narragansett land on the grounds that "the native Indians [are] extinct in [this] Town." Following the American Revolution , numerous Eastern Niantic families fled west and joined the Brotherton Indians in New York and eventually Wisconsin. Those that remained were often seen by political leaders as separate from

504-561: The early 20th century, Mohegan people of southeastern Connecticut considered Western Niantic peoples to be amongst their elders, turning to them for additional guidance on sacred traditions, medicine, symbolism, and tribal history. In the 1930s, Niantics attended a gathering at Mashapaug Pond in Providence, Rhode Island that also included Narragansetts, Nipmucks , Wampanoags , Passamaquoddys , and Misquamicuts . In 1998, about 35 Connecticut families claiming Niantic descent incorporated as

532-509: The messenger and sent him to the fort at Saybrook . They sent him on to Hartford , but the party was forced to put in at Shelter Island , where the messenger escaped. In 1644, the New England Confederation raised an army to protect their ally, Uncas, against Ninigret. Humphrey Atherton lead the expedition into Narraganset country with the aim of renewing alliances. Ninigret and his men abandoned their siege. Atherton, who held

560-501: The rank of Captain at the time, marched into the wigwam of Ninigret and threatened Ninigret’s life. This step had the desired effect and the sachem allegedly begged for his life, and promised submission. Ninigret passed the winter of 1652-53 among the Dutch colonists in Manhattan and the western Indians. New England's colonists suspected Ninigret of plotting against them, and suspected that he

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616-406: The state sold their burial ground, which was desecrated. The Crescent beach community was developed on top of this area. Niantic skeletal remains have been uncovered during excavation for new construction projects over the years, as recently as 1988. In 1880, the Eastern Niantic-Narragansett reservation was sold to the state of Rhode Island, with only the church remaining under their control. In

644-537: The surviving Narragansetts. Weunquest's half-brother Ninigret II succeeded her, and under his leadership, the Niantic-Narragansetts received their reservation in 1709. He died in 1723, by which time the Eastern Niantics were fully known as Narragansetts. Alcoholism, political infighting, and pressure from the European settlers in the area began to harm the tribe, with population shrinking to 51 families by 1730. By

672-531: The time of colonization, based in Rhode Island. In 1637, he allied with the colonists and the Narragansetts against the Pequot Indians. Ninigret is credited with keeping the Niantics out of King Philip's War , in which the colonists fought to prevent their homes and settlements from being destroyed by certain Indian tribes. Ninigret was the son of Sachem Saccious, the cousin or the uncle of Miantonomo , and

700-420: The tribe acknowledged the boy as their sachem, while another portion adhered to his uncle George, who assumed the entire government in 1735. George's son Thomas Ninegret became chief in 1746. He sold additional Niantic lands to the colony of Rhode Island which caused discontentment among his people, some of whom tried to depose him. They appealed for relief to Sir William Johnson , the colonial superintendent of

728-606: The uncle and brother-in-law of Harman Garrett . He was first known to the colonists as Janemo and was sachem of the Niantics, a tribe of the Narragansett people. He did not participate in the Pequot war of 1632, and he aided the colonists in the Pequot war of 1637. About a year after the death of Miantonomo, he formed a plan for expelling the colonists and sent a messenger to Long Island sachem Waiandance to engage him in it. Waiandance tied up

756-484: The white community but also not as Indigenous, resulting in Niantics being listed as "Black" or "Negro" in Rhode Island town records, a reclassification that would make it difficult for them to maintain their claim on their ancestral lands. By 1870, the Western Niantics were declared extinct by the state of Connecticut, which sold their 300-acre (1.2 km ) reservation on the Black Point peninsula of East Lyme. In 1886,

784-521: Was seeking stockpiles of guns and forming alliances with other well-armed Indian groups. Ninigret waged war against the Long Island Indians who had placed themselves under the protection of the New England colonists. In September 1654, the Connecticut colonists demanded his appearance in Hartford and the payment of tribute that had long been due from his Pequot subjects. Ninigret refused to appear and sent them

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