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“Rhode Island Knows Now - THE NARRAGANSETT STILL EXISTS!”

By Lara Savenije
Native peoples had already lived on the land near Mashapaug Pond for many centuries when Roger Williams arrived in Providence in 1636. The pond’s very name comes from two Algonquin words: ‘massa’ and ‘pug’, meaning ‘large standing water’. In…
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This work is licensed by the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage, the Rhode Island Historical Society and the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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