THE NIPNUC HAVE OVER 500 PEOPLE AND REPRESENT A SIGNIFICANT PART OF THEIR COMMUNITY. IN 1620 THEY NUMBERED OVER 15,000. ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE DATES THEM TO 15,000 TO 20,000 YEARS AGO. THEIR TERRITORY STRETCHED FROM NEW HAMPSHIRE TO CONNECTICUT TO RHODE ISLAND. THEY LIVED IN SCATTERED VILLAGES. THEIR SUBSISTENCE STRATEGIES WERE GATHERING, PLANTING, AND HARVESTING THEIR SEASONAL FOODS. THEIR VILLAGES WERE LINKED TOGETHER BY KINSHIP TIES, AND COMMON ENEMIES. THEY WERE CAREFUL PLANNERS AND GOOD STEWARDS OF THE LAND. IN 1497 JOHN CABOT LANDED ON NEW FOUNDLAND TO ESTABLISH A NEW FISHING GROUP FOR EUROPEANS. DEADLY EPIDEMICS HIT THE INDIANS FROM THESE ENCOUNTERS.
THEIR TRAGIC HISTORY INCLUDES A TRAIL OF TEARS IN 1675 WHEN THE ENGLISH FORCED THEM TO GO TO BOSTON HARBOR, AND MANY DIED. THEIR NATION RETURNS ANNUALLY HERE TO MOURN THEIR ANCESTORS. THEY REFER TO THE INDIANS IN THE NORTHEAST AS THE ONES WHO STAYED BEHIND. THEY HAVE TRIBAL TRADITIONS AND MUSEUMS.
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