Nipmuc
The word Nipmuc, meaning,“fresh water,” identifies the Native peoples also known as Chaubunagungamaug, Hassanamisco and Wabbaquasset. Their homelands are in present-day central and eastern Massachusetts and northern Connecticut. Culturally and linguistically, they are eastern Algonkian Indians.The Nipmuc around Natick joined villages of “Praying Indians” in the 1660s. In 1675-76, they joined with the Narragansett and Wampanoag in Metacom’s Rebellion or King Philip’s War.