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Article: Narragansett
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NARRAGANSETT
NARRAGANSETT.
Narragansetts first encountered Europeans in 1524. Relatively unaffected by the massive epidemic of 1616
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1617, they became players in the fur trade and a major power in southern New England. In 1636 the tribe allowed Roger Williams and other Puritan dissidents to settle in their territory (now southern Rhode Island), and then joined the English in the Pequot War. Their relationship quickly soured, although negotiators managed to prevent war. But when King Philip's War erupted in 1675, an English preemptive strike drove the tribe into the conflict. Ninigret, sachem of the neighboring Niantics, remained neutral; his community drew many survivors and ...
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